Does a crisis justify violations of liberty otherwise enumerated in various bills of rights, or were these founding documents created specifically to forbid violations when circumstances make it most tempting? North Carolina police are using the governor's executive order as justification to trample Article I, Sections 7, 12, 14, 19, & 21 of the North Carolina State Constitution.
Even if I put on my minarchist dunce cap and pretend these magic parchments have any merit, this is clearly a fundamental violation of liberty. If you allow fear to govern your life, anyone who can wield that fear against you will also govern your life. They then own you.
Dissenting with government policy is not necessarily ignorance of, or disregard for, the problem used to justify it. The elderly and at-risk folks need to protect themselves from coronavirus. I am not denying that. But killing off the productive economy is damned stupid, and we won't even see the full effect for a good while yet.
This short-sighted knee-jerk authoritarian response is guaranteeing chaos. Crises are when rights get trampled, and Quislings cheer it on because of their fear. Don't be a Quisling.
