If we had an extremely high risk threat like airborne ebola var 2 circulating or something, we would not be able to deal with it because of how the ability to deal with pandemic protections have been weakened by all those trying to weaken pandemic protections, not because say my governor decides to drop mask protection now (I disagree with it, but if that's all it was, mandates could come and go), but rather because how it is has been litigated and propagandized. I didn't help that along, ahem did you? Haha. It's not the beginning of a dictatorship, it's the end of even trying to act collectively to deal with public health problems. For the rest of my life it's going to be every person for themselves in a pandemic, I can only hope I don't live long enough to see another pandemic but with conditions as they are we are almost bound to. Until then I take care of #1 (which is frankly exactly what I do when I wear an N95). Climate change is another one of those collective action problems. I'm not saying it would all be hard, full electrification of power would probably do a lot for instance but it's a collective action problem, it's not about me, me, me.