Do you remember the day after 9/11, when it felt like everything changed, the rules were being rewritten, and anything was on the table? I felt something simil

Do you remember the day after 9/11, when it felt like everything changed, the rules were being rewritten, and anything was on the table? I felt something similar during the height of the early pandemic and lockdown measures, and I suspect that IA's decision was made in the same spirit. It's hard to look back on it now because so much shitty and divisive stuff happened since, but there was a genuine feeling at the time: Anything is possible and everything must be done, to lessen the blow of lockdowns. Do what's morally right and hope the details get worked out later. Giving people books seemed morally right. I'm personally still confident in that, even if the laws of intellectual poverty say otherwise. We'll see what the courts say.