New data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Tuesday continued to show weakness in the American jobs market.The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) shows that the number of new hires in February decreased to 4.8 million, which was roughly 400,000 fewer hires than wer...
Nobody was physically restricted from leaving their homes. Large gatherings were forbidden and most places were closed. People were restricted from gathering anywhere enclosed.
Large gatherings were discouraged. But (at least in the US) nobody suffered any actual penalties for congregating.
Most places were closed because people were hiding from the deadly plague.
So much of this is conservatives who - at the fucking time were as terrified of the Wuhan Flu as everyone else - have retconned the COVID Pandemic to be a Fake And/Or Woke Virus that only they were cleared eyed enough to ignore.
Ummm… there were actual penalties in some cities for congregating.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-california-church-fine-6daddfd8325e7d63b9828092a69eca8a
And places in some cities were forced to be closed, not just closed because they didn’t have customers. My city didn’t allow some businesses to open at all.
There were actual lockdowns in some cities. I had to carry a piece of paper from my company saying I was a necessary worker just so I could drive to work. They weren’t letting people drive around for a short period of time… which ended roughly when everyone realized how stupid that was. My city also didn’t allow gatherings outdoors, too. They closed all hiking trails, even to solo hikers.
The term “lockdown” is a huge misnomer though. Most of it was private businesses being closed or remote only.
I’m so tired of all the embellishments people put on describing 2020. Just once I’d like people to be honest and straightforward and just describe what happened that instead of borrowing language from the most insane people in society to describe it.
That is what I did. I was being honest and straightforward with using the word lockdown. Maybe your city was different, but we literally were not allowed to drive without a paper saying we were required to. I would drive to work in the worst traffic city in the country and there would be zero other cars on the road. We were literally not allowed to use public parks or hiking trails or playgrounds, even when alone. Churches were not legally allowed to hold services in person. These are all real things that happened in my city.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/limited-stay-at-home-order.aspx
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-county-orders-closure-of-bars-gyms-just-as-city-of-la-did-day-before/2329930/
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/coronavirus/governor-projects-56-of-californians-may-be-infected-with-coronavirus-in-next-8-weeks/2332217/