Your conflating laws with values.
Could you imagine the protests that would have happened if the USA has had a lockdown like Spain (no going out even for exercise) for seven weeks?
Just look upstream in this topic for an example of some behavior. A few people have mentioned guns if they were asked to quarantine in a hotel rather than their own homes. Yet in Australia and New Zealand that's exactly what people were expected to do and did. No protests, guns etc because there value system is more towards common good.
Originally Posted by
Nagasaki Joe
There's probably no other country that values group good more than Japan, yet as you can see by my post above, their existing laws are very protective of civil liberties, even more than the U.S., in relation to the pandemic, which surprised me. Despite that, deaths in Japan from the virus are close to those of Australia and New Zealand, so I wonder if the argument of individualism vs. group good is valid.