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Showing Original Post only (View all)What about "shelter in place" do people not understand? [View all]
I am kind of pissed off by the many posts here from people who apparently do not understand the facts, let alone the dynamics, of this week's events. So I am recapitulating a response to a clueless post here as an OP.
The media called it a "lockdown" but that's what the media does; it conflates. It was, and always was, "shelter in place".
"Shelter in place" was voluntary. But Bostonians, who apparently have a few more brain cells than some here, realized that going out on the street in the middle of a huge crime investigation would have been kind of bad form.
So, Bostonians willingly stayed in their houses so as to not impede the already stressed out law enforcement forces who were, after all, looking for very bad dudes who blew up a whole lot of people.
They even helped!!! What a surprise!?
What would you have done? Have a street party in defiance?