The police enforcement should be viewed as a pendulum swing: in the US at least you can see periods of heavy enforcement, political upheaval, periods of laxity, increased crime and misery, right-wing backlash, enforcement, backlash against that and progressive movements, periods of laxity... and that's where we are today in the pendulum swing.
The pluses are we're treating new and more diseases, exploring technologies that cure the previously incurable, and making progress in areas like energy efficiency.
There are all sorts of downsides and challenges, like alienation due to online personas and the diminishment of the value of in-person interaction; people who believe the online is reality and are forever seeing evil in everyone (the -cisms, the harassment, all those things the online connected world facilitates).
Those too will lead to some sort of correction.
It's a difficult time for sure but it's also a time for adaption. What other choice is there?
The pluses are we're treating new and more diseases, exploring technologies that cure the previously incurable, and making progress in areas like energy efficiency.
There are all sorts of downsides and challenges, like alienation due to online personas and the diminishment of the value of in-person interaction; people who believe the online is reality and are forever seeing evil in everyone (the -cisms, the harassment, all those things the online connected world facilitates).
Those too will lead to some sort of correction.
It's a difficult time for sure but it's also a time for adaption. What other choice is there?