My Relationship With The Government In Fahrenheit 451

My Relationship With the Government During the Pandemic

Whenever it comes to solving a problem, there are many sides and opinions on proposing a solution. When the problem involves a higher figure, such as the government, they cannot satisfy all sides and views because of contradiction. This results in the minority being left in the dark. I was part of that minority that wanted the government to act sooner during the pandemic when they had other priorities, just like how Montag in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was part of the minority that supported books when the government was against it. When the minority’s needs aren’t met, trust and reliability in the authoritative figure decrease. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag starts to question the morality

Eventually, that 19 people turned into a thousand in a flash and I realized the severity of the situation. Since there were no vaccines, I knew hospitals were a dangerous place to be since all the infected would be there, and they would eventually not have enough ventilators to save lives. I knew our government had to act. Comparatively, others didn’t. They wanted to keep going out, shopping, eating at restaurants, and some went to the extent of not masking. Our government didn’t initiate a lockdown until 2 months after the first case appeared in the United States. They wanted to prevent panic and prevent more people from not following their ‘outrageous lockdown’ as they thought of it as unnecessary. Because of this, more people were on the streets during that time and more people got infected. My family rents out to multiple tenants, one of which has a 95-year-old elderly that was highly vulnerable to being sick and ill. This further implies that we had to be very careful whenever we went out since the most vulnerable group to covid were older people. Although I wanted lockdown to occur sooner, the majority of people didn’t want lockdown at all. Scientists already proved that initiating a lockdown would slow the infection rate, but the government was only worried about minimizing panic. This puts me in the minority of people

Before we left our houses, we put on our masks. Then, we left in our minivan. Once we arrived, we noticed quite a few people not masked even when the government mandates masks. This just shows people’s negligence and affected how the government should respond at a certain level to maintain order. In addition to this, during this time 99 Ranch didn’t have a forced masking policy implemented yet, so even in the store there were people without masks. If people can’t have their way and not have a lockdown, they’ll just go out without wearing masks. No problems were being solved here. People weren’t wearing masks, some violating lockdown rules by going to non-essential places, and some protested about the pandemic. This further lowered my trust in the government on how effective they were in keeping their citizens