If the government ordered a curfew was for our area because of louting of homes damaged by a tornado, I suspect that you would call that encroachment of our civil liberties. Your post has many misleading statements.
Because of the US Constitution, only that states have the power to order the closure of businesses and only within that state’s jurisdiction. For this emergency, the US government established guidelines that included social distancing. The states and local governments then issued local orders based on the emergency guidelines. In our area, non-essential businesses were ordered to close; but, grocery stores were considered essential businesses. Walmart’s grocery business is considered “essential.” If Walmart had stopped people from buying “underwear to fishing lures,” then extremists would be posting complaints calling that erosion of our civil liberties.
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