[legion]

I predict now that public officials have granted themselves the power to shut down commerce and lock people in their houses at will, this power will be used for increasingly less severe purposes. I predict the next use will be another overreaction to a disease new to the country (probably a flu strain on the order of bird flu or swine flu). Eventually it will be a bad flu season that has us all locked down. Someone will try to use it to stem a phantom crime wave. Get used to it. We are all subjects that can be ordered inside at the whims of our rulers.