Order Texans to stay home, or risk impeding the fight against COVID-19?
DISASTERS ALWAYS TEST LEADERS, but a pandemic isn’t a hurricane or a tornado. It doesn’t come and go in a day or a week. It’s not confined to a geographic area. It’s invisible. It preys on the social ties that bind us into communities, cities, a state.
But that’s what government is for, isn’t it? When the proper response to a crisis is collective action and not individual action. When the path…