Yes, expect more surveillance during a crisis, but beware it once the danger has passed

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/yes-expect-more-surveillance-during-a-crisis-but-beware-it-once-the-danger-has-passed/ar-BB12v9f0 ^

[BusterDog]

‘We will not at this stage be checking the items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it is a legitimate necessary item,” Nick Adderley, chief constable of Northamptonshire, warned last week, “but if people do not heed the warnings, we will start to do that.”

[moovova]

Businesses are already suffering and now many items, previously available for purchase, are verboten? Really! Why doesn’t the government just shoot the store owner and padlock the store doors?

[rightwingcrazy]

“These are not normal times and there is a good case for more intrusive policing and surveillance measures to stem a pandemic.”

The key then, is never to allow the crisis to end, until another crisis can be contrived. A permanent surveillance state will be deemed a necessary evil, and the minority that still call for its end will be marginalized. Once this is the new normal, you won’t even need a crisis to maintain it, not very often, anyway.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

I’m convinced that nefarupowera don’t want people taking the plentiful HCQ as a preventative, and going right back to work, because they haven’t had entire to implement enough Marxism yet.

— mass surveillance and tracking
— universal basic income (UBI)
— mass government dependence
— economic depression
— hardcore precedent fedgov by decree

[motor_racer]

Ironic for this to come from Microsoft News. Founder Bill Gates is the one pushing for everyone IN THE WORLD to be tagged with “digital ID” so they can be tracked everywhere at all times.

[G Larry]

My cell phone is not surgically implanted.

[UnwashedPeasant]

One benefit of the Wuhan virus is that it causes fascists to reveal themselves.