HACKER Q&A
📣 gitgud

Are you worried about your government's reaction to pandemic?


Firstly, I understand the "Coronavirus CVOID-19" situation is a serious matter. It's just the way governments are reacting, reminds me of their response to a terrorist attack.

Here in Australia we're urged to stay at home and are banned from gatherings of more than 100 people. It seems each week there's more restrictions on personal freedom's like; travel, attending events, what you can buy, even how to greet people...

I feel like the laws imposed on civilians during an event like this are extremely hard to revoke after the fact, kind of like how airport security was permanently increased after 9/11/2001...


  👤 instakrill Accepted Answer ✓
"Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." - FA Hayek.

I am australian and also very concerned. The powers currently granted to the QLD Chief Medical Officer sound like they come straight out of North Korea.