Why, because we might have another once-in-a-century pandemic two or three years from now? We were told that we all had to drop everything and alter our daily

Why, because we might have another once-in-a-century pandemic two or three years from now? We were told that we all had to drop everything and alter our daily lives because this was an exceptional crisis that hadn't been seen in generations. If that's genuinely true, who cares about precedent? Exceptional circumstances are what emergency laws are for.