Being Enslaved, At home

WHEN YOU ARE ENSLAVED, you love in chains, and have no freedom. Your every move, every action, every word is strictly controlled by your master owner.  You work from sunup to sun down, if not more, under brutal conditions,performing agonizingly brutal labor, such as picking cotton, smashing rocks, digging ditches, or cleaning latrines. Discipline and punishment are constant. If you drink one sip too much water, eat one bite to much food, take a break from work for one minute longer than allotted, you are mercilessly whipped. Over the years, your back and body accumulate cuts, bruises, and scars. You can be bought and sold anytime without your permission. You might be separated from your family. if you are allowed to have a family. forever.  You never receive proper medical care, your health is always poor, and you probably die young, still enslaved. If you are confined to your own home during an epidemic, you don't really have to stay home all the time. You can drive to the store, get gas, run errands, go pretty much where you want to, maybe for a nice quiet drive in the country. Your choices are more limited than usual, because businesses and restaurants are closed, and sports and other entertainment events are cancelled. Instead, you have to pick up food at drive thru, or order a pizza delivered to your house, or cook at home if you prefer. You must content yourself to watch movies at home, rather than out in a movie theater. Other entertainment and sports replay classic games you get on your flat screen, with five hundred channels from which to choose, as usual. If you lose your job, because of the pandemic you might be able to work from home, or you might receive government unemployment assistance money directly deposited into your bank account. Your smart phone and lap top and I Pad come in handy; those hours on social media, Facebook, talking, texting, You tubing, keeping in touch with friends all over the country and world make the hours pass more rapidly. Attorney General bill Barr compared self quarantining sheltering in place to slavery. he said they are in effect the same thing, with the loss of freedom and civil liberties. He was of course speaking abstractly, legally. but actually, the two are very different. Its funny. conservatives often accuse liberals of living in a world of theory, rather than reality.