1/ Vocal opponents of a Covid curfew/lockdown who think *this* is a violation of civil liberties, do you speak up about carding? About chronic delays in getting bail hearings? About the plight of migrant farm workers? Or the overrepresentation of BIPOC persons in Canadian jails?

2/ If not, that notion of civil liberties is individualistic and selfish in the extreme. What good are civil liberties if as a society we can't cooperate in the most basic social endeavours? Do we actually think we could survive a true existential threat to our society, like war?

3/ One needs only to have briefly dwelt among people deprived of their actual civil liberties -- or truly empathized with them -- to understand that we are highly privileged in the West and have not faced real adversity since WW2.

4/ The loudest voices railing against Covid measures are not being genuine with their use of slippery slope arguments unless they are on the front lines of the battle for workers rights or the rights of accused persons.

5/ The chest-thumping "NO CURFEW FOR ME" while standing mute in the face of real injustices, largely against BIPOC, is the strongest indicator of anti-social egocentrism.

6/ While the efficacy of a curfew can be legitimately debated, and many rightly point out that like any broadly applicable restriction, the enforcement mechanism for a curfew is likely to disparately impact BIPOC persons, please spare me the Braveheartian courage you now possess.