For the first few weeks, at least where I lived, the pandemic response was an almost perfect illustration of how I would have described the ideal anarchist model.

Everyone was reading up on the issue and businesses were responding with their own measures to try and balance safety with remaining open. Some were requiring masks. Others were restricting shopper density, by having people wait outside. Most ramped up in store sanitation measures and installed protective dividers.

It was exactly why we would have told people that the government doesn't need to be in charge of this stuff. And then, of course, the government did get involved and made everything dramatically worse for everyone.