At first I was confused by this but then by the comments I intimated this must have happened in The U.K. or something. For a moment I was like "what solidarity, people shot employees over being asked to wear a mask." But no they mean over there. Pheew!
Dave AndressCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.