I pray that you are correct with the "someday" but my optimism is getting harder and harder to maintain. The consequences of non-compliance are growing, not fading. I don't travel far from the front door without my passport and my COVID card - just in case. I just broke open a new box of masks (black - in morning of the death of sanity and liberty). Need one for my ophthalmologist visit on Monday (gov't mandate, not the doc's). As the days get shorter the earth is indeed plunging back into darkness.

Your HR department was doing what they had to do. In other places people were being stopped and told to go home and even arrested and put in jail for violating the lockdown orders (parts of California). I'd say keep that letter and show it to kids as a warning - but I'm afraid most publicly educated would say "so?" and think that needing permission from the proper authorities to move about is reasonable. But keep trying to educate the kids - they are our only hope.