Imma go out on a limb here, but I think Americans have a problem with authority.

Rejecting orders to stay home because it infringes on your personal freedoms is like running on front of a moving car because your mom told you not to play in the street.

#coronainsanity

We're at a point in history where the extreme of egotism and selfishness on the part of the US population is coming to the surface. It'll only take a few thousand unnecessary deaths for us to realize it and start to realize that society is a collaborative effort.

I call it the 1984 effect. People are so afraid of any show of authority, no matter how minor or well-intentioned, because they think it's a slippery slope to totalitarianism and dictatorship.

Having lived in a supposedly "authoritarian" nation, I can tell you that this kind of thinking couldn't be further from reality.

We have to learn to assess the actions of our government based on their underlying intentions, not with a blanket mindset that all authority is evil.

@Gapminder I believe there is some absence of factful thinking at play here. One of our primitive instincts to jump to conclusions based on an incomplete and incorrect understanding of the facts. A combination of unchecked ego an impulsive decision making.

Yes, I'm saying China handled it right. Yeah, people got bored and the economy crashed, but thousands of deaths were avoided. The economy will recover. The people who succumb will not.

We, as a population, have to start acknowledging that we DO have a responsibility to act in the interest of the collective, even if it means limiting our freedoms in some areas.

Right now, it IS our responsibility to forego our freedom of mobility to prevent deaths. #STAYINSIDE

Please retweet this thread to give your fellow Americans an alternative viewpoint, to hopefully bring them to awareness of the responsibility we all have to work together to end this pandemic. If we can't come together now, when will we ever be able to?

#StayHome