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Slippery Slope

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Right now, and really for the past several weeks, our country has been on a slippery slope. This pandemic required us to go into a lockdown mode restricting us pretty much to our homes. Many businesses closed, some permanently at this point. Restaurants went to drive-up or curbside only; some even started offering delivery.  But this is America! We have basic feeedoms guaranteed to us in our Constitution. Herein lies the slippery slope. Our President made a decision early-on to restrict travel abroad to limit the spread. He discussed with the state governors how they will proceed in stopping the spread in their states (Amendment 10). He put together a task force to follow the spread closely and keep us informed; a couple of those individuals do not have our best interests in mind, but I leave that to you to decide. State governors are now exercising their authority in slowly opening up their state and therefore economies. Well, there are a few who are being rather harsh...