US citizens: call on world leaders not to use Covid-19 as an opportunity to deny basic rights.

You will almost surely live to see Covid-19 be eliminated, but if you surrender any freedoms now without a fight, except in a carefully limited way, you miss those freedoms for the rest of your life.

*"Temporary" powers in an emergency have a habit of becoming permanent. In these circumstances, paranoia appears more a necessity than a delusion.*

*Yet it remains true that technology is not destiny. Politics counts for more than algorithms. Just as tyrannical governments, from Hungary to China, are using the pandemic to impose more controls, so democratic societies will need to show a liberal response to the virus.*

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The poisoner's officials propose to allow planting of genetically-modified herbicide-resistant crops in wildlife refuges. This would imply using herbicides there, thus endangering wild plants in the surrounding areas.

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