My goodness, how swiftly the authorities move to dictatorship mode.
You’re not using the word “dictatorship” correctly here.
dictatorship. A dictatorship is a government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else. Dictatorship implies absolute power — one person who takes control — of a political situation, a family, a classroom or even a camping expedition.
Which is a curious thing, because my sense of you is that you are quite smart enough to know exactly what a dictatorship is, and that this isn’t an example of one. Hence the curiosity of you using that word about a situation that was clearly decided by groups of elected people rather publicly, with input from subject matter experts. Why would you use a word that you know is the wrong word?
Perhaps you seek to inflame the conversation. Or bludgeon your audience with an idea, or a fear that you hold. So you use a fearsome word.
But let’s juxtapose that with the situation. You have a fear, that you want to spread, perhaps, and it is a fear that people who are carrying a disease that appears quite contagious might be restricted from spreading it.
What a curious position. The discussion is about people refusing the advice of the medical world, even while they can easily see the example of Italy (and increasingly, Spain) and know that this advice is intended to save lives.
But you have a fear deep enough that you want to broadcast and multiply it, by using inflammatory emotional words, a fear that people should not be coerced by a common cause nor a societal effort to prevent this spread.
Very curious. But certainly, you know for certain that “dictatorship” is not even remotely what is going on here.
