[TLFisher]

PriestlyScribe, I recall Witness Lee once said every local church should be a police station. Really? No, the brothers don't want that. They want localities full of enablers and that's what they have. Not just brothers, but sisters too.
One can be privately very opinionated, but when it comes to peer pressure and what the brothers say, they yield.
I've seen some of the names of brothers who signed off on the quarantine. Some I knew at various degrees from Bellevue, Washington and from San Bernardino, California. What were you brothers thinking is a question I've had in my mind for decades. Only reasonable response is it's a by-product of natural affection for Witness Lee. Either that or as you said, Fear was no doubt quite thick in those Fermentation meetings."