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> The government is not out to get you in a pandemic. Replace pandemic with war. What's the difference? Governments readily encroach on civil liberties during
by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> The government is not out to get you in a pandemic.
Replace pandemic with war. What's the difference? Governments readily encroach on civil liberties during emergencies. And we know how advocates of the Patriot Act recognized it would be a powerful law, so they said it would be temporary. We all know how that turned out. It doesn't seem like it'll go away now.
I fear we'll play out something similar with lockdown. And what's really somewhat horrifying is that the mere mention of concerns surrounding lockdown is made out to be crazy, dangerous, inhumane, etc.
- kanox 6y agoTerrorism is a permanent low-level threat but pandemics and and floods are acute and have a reasonably well-defined end. The latter justify emergency powers specific to combating the issue at hand. Imminent invasions also justify emergency powers, but not overseas wars. My guess is that the pandemic will be completely under control before a year has passed.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoIt seems we’re teetering around calling for these encroachments on really vague criteria even as far as “if anyone is dying.”