Jack of Harts

Four years ago today, there were a few thousand confirmed cases of the China virus in America. The vast majority were in China and, oddly, Italy where a major focus had hit one of their regions. President Trump told everybody to go home for 15 days to slow the spread. Just to flatten the curve so the hospitals wouldn’t be overrun by cases when the peak hit. A few crazy conspiracy theorists told Americans not to cooperate. That if we let the government lock us down for 15 days, they would keep us locked down for months or years or longer. Most people disregarded them. What right-minded American would believe the government was even capable of anything like that? It was just those crazy conspiracy theorists spouting off. Right?