brb, getting drunk and reading this while I laugh until I cry

https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1433859082251902992

The ACLU's 2008 report on how not to respond to a pandemic:

https://twitter.com/david_shane/status/1415764972198666248

https://aclu.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/privacy/pemic_report.pdf

https://archive.is/hK2yh

"There will always be a new disease, always the threat of a new pandemic. If that fear justifies the suspension of liberties and the institution of an emergency state, then freedom and the rule of law will be permanently suspended."

"Too often, fears aroused by disease and epidemics have encouraged abuses of state power. Atrocities, large and small, have been committed in the name of protecting the public’s health."

"The Act used fear to justify methods better suited to quelling public riots than protecting public health. The premise of the Act was that every outbreak of disease could be the beginning of some horrific epidemic, requiring the suspension of civil liberties."

"The threat of a new pandemic will never subside. But the notion that we need to 'trade liberty for security' is misguided and dangerous. Public health concerns cannot be addressed with law enforcement or national security tools. If we allow the fear associated with a…potential outbreak to justify the suspension of liberties in the name of public health, we risk not only undermining our fundamental rights, but alienating the very communities and individuals that are in need of help and thereby fomenting the spread of disease."