Businesses and services deemed as essential were still expected to keep their doors open while adhering to the COVID-19 regulations. Stores and businesses that were deemed non-essential would be either closed or have a reduction of opening times from their normal business hours.
The practice of social distancing would widely become described as maintaining a six-feet distance from other people, and if in a public setting would also include to proper usage of a face mask covering. Upon their implementation, the population of these governed states were expected to isolate in their homes and practice social distancing, as well as abide by a curfew if instated. These stay-at-home orders were used primarily as a preventative measure at the time of their initial enactment since the virus had not yet reached a large number of cases. When state governments initiated these forementioned lockdowns, they were issued as stay-at-home orders implemented as a strategic method to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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To begin a thorough investigation of the series of events that catalyzed the controversy of mandated lockdowns, it is crucial to first understand what exactly these lockdowns entailed for states held under these policies.
Although my targeted audience may object this stance, I hope to persuade those objections through careful examination of these controversies. Having just stated that these areas of concern are in fact important, I want now to complicate the point by saying that these lockdowns issued over the course of the past year have been essential to the decline of COVID-19 cases. In other words, I hope to provide detailed insight throughout this essay as to why these concerns have led to controversy, as well as address the underlying foundation of these concerns, the violation of rights and freedom. These lockdowns spark such debates and controversy because people feel that they encroach on their rights and their freedom.Įssentially, I am not arguing that these concerns raised by the population that is against mandatory lockdowns are not valid, but rather that they should be investigated further in order to properly mitigate the arguments that surround these reasons. When reading between the lines of these reasons the public population is resisting mandatory federal-issued lockdowns, there is a common theme that seems to answer the critical question. People argue that the economic damages will be irreversible post-lockdown if action is not taken and may even lead to an economic revolution that steers away from capitalism, an author from UnHerd stating, “If we do not use this moment as a time to rebuild and reform our economic system, we will be left even more vulnerable to the next catastrophe” (Hearn).Other arguments include the negative consequences on citizens’ immune system and mental health that can ensue from the isolation of lockdowns, as well as being removed from real life experiences for an extended period of time.
As of now, the question remains, What has caused these preventative measures against COVID-19 to spark such controversy?įrom a quick glance, one can see the magnitude of reasons as to why these lockdowns are so controversial. In this essay, I look to expand my research to discover what has ignited these arguments and caused the fallout that has followed since the lockdowns’ initial enactment. These lockdowns, as well as mandatory mask-wearing policies, were the most effective and cautionary actions to take at the time as most of the virus’s aspects were unknown however, the implementation of state-wide lockdowns quickly became a hot topic that sparked much controversy as people took sides for whether they were necessary or not. This lockdown phenomenon spread rapidly to all corners of the world as scientists worked rapidly to test this strain of coronavirus to learn how contagious it was and how it was contracted. Upon the arrival of the SARS-2 coronavirus outbreak in late 2020 and early 2021, the city of Wuhan, China implemented a lockdown that would eventually be upheld in every city in the country. Critical Analysis: The Causes and Controversies of Lockdowns
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