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Surprise surprise, government can mobilise police/army to protect their citizens. Who would have thought. Come on, no one knew if it was a new black death or just a harmless virus. The hysteria about government taking valid steps in an unclear situation is childish.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/cross-whitehal...
Surprise surprise, government can mobilise police/army to protect their citizens. Who would have thought. Come on, no one knew if it was a new black death or just a harmless virus. The hysteria about government taking valid steps in an unclear situation is childish.
In The Netherlands it’s mostly a secret which people were part of the unit, though a couple have been discovered and perhaps there will be more to come.
Surprise surprise, government can mobilise police/army to protect their citizens. Who would have thought. Come on, no one knew if it was a new black death or just a harmless virus. The hysteria about government taking valid steps in an unclear situation is childish.
See for example: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55676037
Does HN have any guidelines about paywalled articles? I assume a large proportion of people commenting here won't have read the article.
For those who don't know, The Telegraph is an extreme right media outlet which regularly publishes absolutely batshit denialist nonsense about Covid, climate change, immigration, and all the usual hits.
It's a Q drop for the UK's upper class.
Not coincidentally it used to employ Boris Johnson, and while PM he allegedly said that it was his real boss.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/boris-johnson-refers-telegraph-re...
So here we are with more than 200,000 dead and more than 2 million with Long Covid.
Good job, Telegraph writers. I hope you're all proud of your "journalism."
Surprise surprise, government can mobilise police/army to protect their citizens. Who would have thought. Come on, no one knew if it was a new black death or just a harmless virus. The hysteria about government taking valid steps in an unclear situation is childish.
Should we close schools semi-indefinitely to protect the elderly after vaccines were widely available (like in SF)?
Shutting down debates on these issues was and is controversial.
Alternatively, they have to try and "police" social media, which can not look like anything but policing free speech, which, especially in times of uncertainty, is bound to backfire.
I wonder if people would be concerned too if the social media platforms were, in the end, ruled by juges rather than governments?
It would still be a "them", but at least it would not be the same "them". Or would the social networks start to revolt against judges ?
(Yes, I know, it will look a lot like separation of powers ((c) Montesquieu), and like we're going to reinvent "judges" and "the laws of free press from the late 1800s" any time soon.)