They pulled the same thing on us after the big terrorist shooting in Paris a few years ago, but successfully.Another example. Last year our government tried to get the parliament to pass a law giving the government more power in emergency situations. The law was rejected, partly because it was deemed to be unconsitutional. Now they are (exploiting the crisis?) working on proposing a similar law. Our current government is a centrist-moderately-rightwing one. As a leftie I disagree with them on many issues, but I'm pretty confident that they wouldn't abuse the increased privileges in a situation like we have now. But, even if it's not very likely, we can't exclude the possibility that an illiberal government could come to power some time in the future. Then we would be in trouble.
Regarding beaches - would that actually be bad? How does this virus do in the sun's light? The night life afterward would worry me more, I think.
I know it's a sanitary measure and not a authoritarian curfew but I can't help myself, I reaaaaally don't like it.
It's maybe not fairly related to the situation but a famous quote hasn't left my mind since:
(Ben, 1706-1790)
We're having an online staff meeting to decide how to teach the rest of the semester now that the uni I work at has shut down…online instruction/instructor chat would be the 'obvious' solution, but not everyone has internet access here, esp poorer students, so it gets complicated.
A good one, Chien. Made me laugh.
Viruses may take our lives but they wont take our freedom.
I know about that, but thanks for the link.Speaking of Ibuprofen, my wife told me it makes OVID-19 worse. After your post, Pib, I turned to Google, and here's the best I could find on the first page.
Went to buy stuffs. Empty roads and streets. Immediatly though off the begining of the movie 28 Days Later…