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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by manigandham on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:13AM (#22634797)
All of these shutdowns are weeks late and the US does not currently have the authority and means to lock down the way eastern countries did.

There are still millions of people going about their day here in LA and nobody will stop them.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by kilroy123 on Friday March 20, 2020 @08:29AM (#22636993)
I would disagree. If the national guard gets deployed, they will say otherwise.
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by chasd00 on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:09AM (#22637606)
forcing it means armed rebellion, Americans don't handle freedom taken away by force very well.
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by firstimeluser on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:07PM (#22639821)
No it doesn't. 99.999% of Americans aren't going to respond with violence if the national guard enforces a quarantine.

This is the most ridiculous fantasy a subset of HN users love to bring up, but there is just absolutely no chance that this happens in any meaningful way.

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