Serious question: Where do you get that rhetoric from? There has been next to zero actual restrictions forced by the federal on lower levels of government. Most of the restrictions are decided at the city and county level and plenty don’t have any restrictions at all. And conform or die? Who is messaging that death is the penalty for not following the nonexistent restrictions?

Wow. I really don't want see Hacker News turn into some ugly mud slinging subreddit type site. This is just wildly against the community guidelines

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This POV is incongruous to me. How does one believe the federal government would benefit from additional lockdowns, when everyone is so tired of living under covid? If anything, officials who impose lockdowns only decrease their popularity, even in very Blue areas.

> There is no "It's your community's choice," it's "Conform or die".

Unless one lives in a walled community and there is no movement in or out of that wall, what happens in one community affects everyone.

For the sake of discussion of sensitive topics, I recommend you ditch the hyperbole and stick to facts if you want to maintain credibility with reasonable people.

I don't believe anyone has tried to literally force any restrictions down your throat, nor do I believe that the feds are killing people who don't conform to restrictions. I wouldn't associate your writing with disbelief or skepticism if it didn't contain this type of hyperbole.