Clearly Erie County decided enough was enough since the honor system definitely broke down. I guarantee you they knew this decision would be controversial and would absolutely upset a lot of people. But from their perspective, they had no choice but to try to protect people from themselves - for the COMMON good!
Many folks aren't happy about it, but it's still the right thing to do.
We are still in the middle of a pandemic here folks. This isn't normal (hopefully) and NO ONE is happy about all the hoops we have to jump thru to try and get thru it. If we all do our part, the sooner we can get back to living how we are used to. And yelling at each other over the usual stuff... (Can Josh ever stop fumbling? Is Die Hard really a Christmas movie?)
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.