It's very intense, because the consequences of getting certain things wrong can be life-changing and even world-changing.
I live in New York State.
During COVID, New York adopted emergency isolation/quarantine rules (10 NYCRR §2.13) and legislators even floated bills to authorize removal/detention of ‘cases, contacts, carriers.’
That wasn’t theoretical: one trial judge struck the rule down as dangerously broad, and the proposed statutory expansion (A416) was widely criticized and never enacted.
This wasn’t small-government paranoia - it was a real expansion of administrative coercion that could let authorities remove people from their homes and detain them with frighteningly little judicial oversight.
In a free society, we don’t hand officials indefinite physical control over citizens lightly, pandemic or no pandemic. Well, at least not those of us who understood what was happening.
Those of us too naive to understand cheered it on.
Do not forget that nearly 50% of our society (we were told) thought it was a good idea to put the non-vaxed into isolation camps.
So I could just brush all this aside, put my arm around my old buddies, and said, "Sure, man, you almost ripped me out of my home, healthy as can be, and imprisoned me without cause based on a silly psyop a 3rd grader should have seen right through, but hey, that's ok - wanna hang out Saturday?"
No thanks. You don't get two chances to nearly destroy my life or our society.
You can't fix stupid. You can only hope to prevent it from ruining the life you spent 50+ years building.