NO FREEDOMS WILL SUFFER.
No, we are not going to Hell in a Hand basket.
Read your history, after periods of hardship and stress, humanity typically resorts to democracy and greater freedoms.
While WWII was still going, the Brits voted Churchill out and voted Attlee in...The Americans re-upped Truman in 1948 and rejected men like Douglas MacArthur. And so on...
In the aftermath of this..by mid summer to years end..you will see a far greater liberal society, that is much more democratic and much more effective.
These are difficult time, needing difficult actions..yes, short term, some harsh laws are needed. All that is happening is, we have dumb people out there in droves..And that small portion is causing a need for harsher action..Guess what, society functions that way..the city of Ottawa has ~5000 cops...why, because a few hundred to a few thousands idiots force us to need them.. 1 million residents, a few hundred idiots...cause 5000 policeman..
How many morons are hoarding supplies..sadly, they impact all of us..How many morons are disobeying quarantine requests...How many morons are misbehaving in general?
The sad reality is a few idiots, lead to a few thousand people needed to coral them and induce harm in a few million.