Again- totally agree.
which is why if someone were to opine in this thread that “we should lock down the whole country and wear masks 100% of the time“ My reaction would be totally different if I even would have one. I would probably just disagree but not even post about it.
But what I was responding to was this notion that those things are far-fetched and can’t possibly happen, because we’ve seen those posts before and a lot of these things that were thought to be “far-fetched” are now in play in real life. That was really my only point
That's fair. I don't keep track of who and what and when anyone has said "that could never happen" with respect to political topics on this message board, because aside from a few discussions about Coronavirus, I have typically actively avoided political discussions on this message board.
In general I don't know of anyone that ever said things like gender neutral bathrooms and defunding the police "could never happen." Pretty much the opposite, honestly. I know people that are strongly in favor of those things, and I know people that are strongly opposed, and in both cases, everyone believed absolutely that it COULD happen, which is precisely why they took active positions to either make it happen, or to prevent it from happening. I don't know anyone that tacitly sat by on those issues and just "let them happen."
Perhaps you do know people like that, or perhaps people on this message board have taken that position. I can't speak to that.
And specifically in this case, it sounds like you and I are aligned that regardless of what position the Federal government takes on an issue like intrastate travel restriction, they're not going to be able to enforce it, and they'll meet heavy resistance in the various regions where we know that kind of thing would be highly unpopular.
Restricting air travel to only those triple vaxed, on the other hand, is something the Executive Branch probably could enact, and I would not agree with such a restriction.
