A “lockdown” by definition will result in subjective determinations of open/close for various facilities similarly situated and is 100 percent certain to yield some seemingly arbitrary outcomes (aka liquor stores open while seforim stores closed). The bottom line is that no one has come with a simple, administratively workable set of lockdown rules that is universally perceived as fair and effective. They are very crude short-term tools to substantially reduce the total number of potential social interactions and viral transmissions versus the number that would result absent such rules, while still allowing vital commerce to occur. Our society will never accept a China-style lockdown enforced by the military or Singapore style lockdown where everyone is tracked via cellphone. With 50 states setting different rules, and much intrastate variation, the enforcement of U.S. lockdowns will be “messy” and inconsistent.
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