Reason magazine wrote up a piece which I read yesterday, and it's been on my mind. The topic? Covid has worked to make more democracies authoritarian, and if you were an authoritarian government to start with.....you are probably pretty close to dictator-status today.
All of this goes to Covid measures which some believe to be disproportion to the reality that people see.
Priorities changed....vacations were cancelled or made into a chaotic planning event. Restrictions are an acceptable part of life. Schools exist, but if you measured 'Wendy' or 'Hector' on advancing in the past two years....there's some noticeable things that they didn't get via the missing school days.
You can go across Europe and see the various directives handed out, and their consequences. In some harsh lands.....it's a pretty difficult landscape and not likely to improve even in 2022.
Chief problem? No one had rules or regulations in place for something like this. Never in a thousand years....did someone conjure up some fantasy virus with this type of consequences. So week after week.....folks wrote rules, bans, and regulations that didn't really fit like a 'puzzle'. Some things made sense...some didn't.
Where this leads onto in 2022? More regulations. More bans. More rules.
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