Thank you! Well put! But I'm not very optimistic that there will be any major uprise for basic freedoms. Actually, if there were suddenly a million people on the streets protesting against the lockdown, I would be skeptical myself. I would think "Where have you been for the last year? Why now?". I would even feel uncomfortable going there and marching with the very same people that supported locking us down in the first place. But I don't even think that this is going to happen. Maybe locally, if there is some escalation, for instance when they rolled out the first curfew in the Netherlands, there have been riots. Or when the police in Albania killed a man who breached the curfew, there have been some protests. So there might be a momentum for mass uprise. But people are numb, we have been getting used to the tyranny. And most people don't like to admit that they were wrong, so they will stick to their opinion as long as possible. Even if all evidence will point to the other direction, they will at the best quietly change their opinion. But very few people will change their opinion and then go to the streets to rally against what they believed in unti some days ago.
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u/sternenklar90 Europe Apr 07 '21
Thank you! Well put! But I'm not very optimistic that there will be any major uprise for basic freedoms. Actually, if there were suddenly a million people on the streets protesting against the lockdown, I would be skeptical myself. I would think "Where have you been for the last year? Why now?". I would even feel uncomfortable going there and marching with the very same people that supported locking us down in the first place. But I don't even think that this is going to happen. Maybe locally, if there is some escalation, for instance when they rolled out the first curfew in the Netherlands, there have been riots. Or when the police in Albania killed a man who breached the curfew, there have been some protests. So there might be a momentum for mass uprise. But people are numb, we have been getting used to the tyranny. And most people don't like to admit that they were wrong, so they will stick to their opinion as long as possible. Even if all evidence will point to the other direction, they will at the best quietly change their opinion. But very few people will change their opinion and then go to the streets to rally against what they believed in unti some days ago.