I know we're not supposed to say it out loud because the virus might be listening but it is actually very very very not-constitutional for the mayor to make having a friend over a crime
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You're being daft if you think you can invoke emergency that functionally suspend rights **for months or years** without having to eat the implications later, either in the form of a flood of lawsuits or a shiny new semi-autocracy
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The problem isn't strong political tools for emergency response, the problem is the fundamental lack of respect for what they are. It's a big deal to suspend the right to assemble. Announcing at 40 days locked down that you still have no plan except more lockdown is unforgivable.
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What we're supposed to be buying ourselves with an emergency toolkit that approaches the power of all-out martial law is the ability to deliver a rapid + flexible **short-term** response at whatever scale/scope makes the most sense. Not indefinite unannounced Martial Law Lite.
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We broke the economy and yet are no closer to having a sustainable science-based plan to deal with the pandemic.
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We have a way to deal with it. They are trying to hold on to power till they can establish control systems!
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This is the key point to me. If after all this you don’t have a very detailed plan that will save many lives then you’re incompetent and I want my rights back.
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This is the strongest articulation of this line of critique. I think there are reasons why there is "no plan", and almost all of it (imo) stems from our political climate. I think
@ezraklein's piece re:@pmarca Time To Build covers some of this well.https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus … -
I guess I would ask if you feel there are political actors you feel that are doing this better/right? Abbott? Cuomo? Newsom?
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