Civic Responsibility

We woke up a few mornings ago to find that the president of the country we’re in had closed the airspace, all the schools, all the stores — that the entire country was closed for business, effectively.

But here’s the thing: he didn’t lockdown the people — he suggested, politely, that this was a fight the country needed to be in together, and that doing that meant doing certain things: staying home as much as possible, social distancing, wearing masks and meticulous hygiene.

And people just complied.

Not just the people from his party — he’s a conservative. But the ones from the middle, the left — even the Communist Party just jumped right on the bandwagon and told its supporters to listen.

As one of our friends put it: it is our civic responsibility to work together.

Civic responsibility. Working together.

I don’t know kids, maybe there’s something in it.