For all the attention paid to the boom in use of the videoconferencing app Zoom, the big winner of the coronavirus lockdown so far may be a less work-oriented, more social Zoom competitor called Houseparty.
Bloomberg News reports that Houseparty has "been one of the most popular social-networking apps in Apple Inc.'s store every day since March 20, and co-founder Sima Sistani told Bloomberg News in mid-April that it had seen more than 50 million sign-ups in the past month."
This is our responsibility. Before COVID-19, we the people lost our willingness, and yielded our powers, to make hard decisions. Now we have lost confidence in the experts and executive officials to whom we delegated our powers. But it's no too late to learn from our mistake.
We are all discussing what our president, governors, mayors, and other executive officials should have done differently. But that is the wrong question. A better question is why executives made all the decisions in the first place. The task of deciding when to activate quarantine, war, or other emergency powers belongs to us, the people. After all, it is our lives, health, livelihoods, businesses, vocations, and liberty that are at stake.
