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Fighting This Coronavirus Is Setting an Untenable Precedent

Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 9:32 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

In “Coronavirus: The Worldwide Shutdown” on March 14, I warned that self-fulfilling prophecies and creeping authoritarianism were governing efforts to combat this virus. From panic buying to manic closings, social distancing to self-isolation, and social-media scammers to Truman-Show hammers, life is imitating the art that played out in dystopian films like the Hunger Games, Idiocracy,… Read more.