The funny thing is the circular reasoning ever present in the liberal worldview. They want the freedom to be free of their fears, and what they fear is your freedom. In their minds that means your freedom must submit to theirs.

the brainwashing and resulting virtue signaling is strong in this one

The constitution does not apply during an emergency. Which is why the federal government has been running in an official state of emergency for about 20 years now.

edit: actually, after looking into it, we’ve been under federal emergency almost continually going back to 1933.

Drink that Kool-Aid.