It's from Slashdot, which tends to be a very left leaning junk tech site. >The US has had very few lockdowns, and the lockdowns there have been have been strictly local affairs. >But yes, it's presumably COVID related, which is frustrating because had we taken the two opportunities available to us (close down for a month early in the pandemic, and keep the borders closed with strict quarantines for those returning from foreign countries until COVID went away), or "Two months of everyone getting mandatory vaccines, with teachers, first responders, nursing staff, and others likely to spread the disease put higher in the queue" which was possible early this year, we wouldn't be in this situation. >Unfortunately we have politicians too chickenshit, and too pandering, or too out of touch, for either to have been done. I seem to remember someone trying to close the borders for a while when this happened. What was his name again? Got called a xenophobe...