[grumple]

> Everything isn't a slippy slope. Everything isn't about your privacy. Everything isn't a grand conspiracy that only you can see and the sheeple are too dumb to understand.

Crises are often used by despots to seize power. That's not a conspiracy, that's historical fact. In the United States, we've seen it recently - 9/11 was used to degrade our rights across a large number of issues, and we've never gotten them back.

Implementing systems to track everyone people come into contact with is absolutely a huge invasion of privacy, and obviously not necessary.

> Sometimes, extreme measures are needed.

Extreme times do not justify all extreme measures.

Every time you lose rights or privacy, assume it's permanent. Our government is not suited for repealing law.

[DagAgren]

Crises are far, far more often NOT used by despots to seize power.