How long does it take to change the habits of a society?

This is the question in regard to forced lockdowns and shuttering businesses. Experts quibble over the amount of time it takes for a new habit, good or bad, to be formed. Some say 21 days, some say 30 or 45 days and some say it takes three months to change an individual’s thinking.

Job abandonment has become a virus of its own as irresponsible employees have dropped out of the workforce

The USA has been closed to business as usual for more than 30 days, which, according to what appears in the previous paragraph, is probably plenty of time to create the new habit of isolating oneself and the family but also of relying on government. Having dropped by a gas station to fill up the other day, the manager expressed exhaustion and frustration with unexpected overtime. She loved her job but after the CARES Act passed, the unmotivated employees found excuse after excuse to keep them from work, swamping the few good employees to cover double shifts during the long hours of operation. Soon enough, the goldbrickers stayed home to wait on government subsidy, leaving the manager short-handed. Job abandonment has become a virus of its own as irresponsible employees have dropped out of the workforce in exchange for one $1,200 check. Congress’ funding unemployment compensation with promised payments above what most workers take home has also led many to quit their jobs, wrongly assuming they’ll cash in. Evidently, they didn’t bother to investigate enough to know that unemployment is only available to workers that are laid-off or, in harsher terms, fired. Quitters won’t collect. What the government has done is pressure the populace into quiet obeisance to D.C. and, by extension, state authoritarians busy about entrenching their power. The saddest part of the media hyped pandemic scenario is how easily the citizenry has been cowed to believe they have no recourse but to hide behind closed doors and accept the pittance of borrowed cash (shouldered by taxpayers in one way or another) and imposed confinement.

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Payment Protection Program is a shortsighted attempt to cage American entrepreneurism

Humanity is weak by nature. Those unwilling or unable to place faith in God and how His handiwork and inspiration founded this nation are doomed to look to worldly answers that are not solutions but the problems’ cause. When citizens believe government is their supply and savior, they have consented to servitude. The Payment Protection Program is a shortsighted attempt to cage American entrepreneurism. It leads business owners into signing up for a "guaranteed" loan that sucks them into government bondage. They’ve opened the door to government regulating their financial decisions and they’ve done so without surety their application will be funded. "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law," Romans 13:8. Debt nor coercion engender love, they bring about resentment and rebellion. And rebellion is brewing. Among Americans who view drastic stay-at-home orders an overreach, governors calling their business endeavors "non-essential," are those willing to put state and local administrators back in their place as public servants. It’s one thing to set guidelines for a temporary quarantine to prevent disease spread (though why that’s never been done for virulent flu seasons… already covered here) but dictatorial regulation of all commerce and free movement is, in many cases, unconstitutional.

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Overbroad shutdown edicts have led fed-up citizens to climb behind the steering wheel and drive to state capitals, demonstrating unwillingness to play pattycake with perverse despot

Overbroad shutdown edicts have led fed-up citizens to climb behind the steering wheel and drive to state capitals, demonstrating unwillingness to play pattycake with perverse despots. The Lansing Gridlock where thousands of cars tied up downtown traffic for miles on April 15 is a prime example. Protests took place in North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and New Hampshire though only the democrat North Carolina governor decided to arrest demonstrators citing that exercising First Amendment rights was "non-essential" activity. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and first officers of a few other states are beginning to relent and dial back the restrictions, whereas Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota didn’t capitulate to the "conventional wisdom" that wasn’t applicable to the small population of her state. The president, who understands habits of success, has tweeted his support for protesters with messages to "liberate" the states where governors have overstepped their constitutional authority. More than a month of enforced habit-change from a mobile, work-driven populace to compelled, inactive seclusion isn’t sitting well with Americans. The jig is up, governors. Your constituents know how to conduct themselves under difficult circumstances; they prove themselves after each natural disaster. In the heartland, it’s time to re-open the economy for a people willing and able to confront hard times with hard work. The United States rejects the habit of dependent socialism.