A New York City uniformed thug was caught on video planting marijuana in someone's car, to frame him. When the state failed to imprison him for the act of bearing false witness, he did it again and was caught again.

Until we put those thugs away for years, they will continue exploiting their immunity to put honest citizens in prison arbitrarily.

Some Italians have been accused of violating quarantine orders even when they have been told they may have Covid-19.

The article says that the state wants to punish anyone who goes outside even if perse has had no sign of or contact with Covid-19. I've heard a report that Italy is tracking people through their phones so as to make the repression total.

There is no need to repress people that strictly. Occasional meetings of a few people who probably don't have Covid-19 will have little effect to spread it.

Many nasty practices that shouldn't have existed ever are being relaxed now because, in the context of an epidemic, their nasty effects are revealed as intolerable — and because the justifications for them were weak or nonexistent in the first place.

Here's one more example: searching aggressively for people to deport.

And another: pressuring people to pay medical and student debts (but only those owed to New York State).

Alas, new rigid excesses are being imposed, including "Absolutely never meet a friend in person," and new unjust practices, such as "Do your studying, meeting and paying through nonfree software and digital dis-services that will track you."

The former will presumably disappear easily when the epidemic is over, but getting rid of the latter will require a fight. Therefore I continue refusing to use web sites that demand nonfree JS code, and not having a portable phone to track me with.

Any government rescue for airlines must rescue their workers and permanently give them more power in the companies.

Senator Warren has proposed similar (identical?) rules for bailouts to any large businesses.

The US government has threatened to harass relatives of the staff of the International Criminal Court.