It has now been almost a month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom curtailed significantly the rights to liberty and free assembly for 40 million Californians in the name of public health. Other governors quickly followed. California's COVID-19 contagion curve has since "flattened" substantially, and it's time for the governor to lift the lockdown. At stake is not just our material recovery, but our moral sanity and our self-government.
