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+Title: So there's a pandemic
+Category: Blog
+Date: 2020-04-02
+Tags: culture, politics
+
+(**Note:** this article was written as is, but never published.  I
+decided to retro-actively publish it because I felt it was important
+to have it in my log of articles, but I also don't think I can really
+add much more to this now since the political climate has shifted
+quite hard.)
+
+I've been meaning to publish this article a lot sooner, but here we
+are.  The last month has been kinda bonkers.  Reading this in the
+future might feel either funny or wistful.  Reading this in the now
+must feel redundant.
+
+Anyway, I've been working on a few things, and also have been thinking
+about a few blog posts that I've wanted to write.  (One has already
+gone up, so once again I'm a literary genius with getting my ordering
+right).  I'll try to write a bit more, and care less about each
+article being as polished as previously.  I feel like I've said this
+before, so I'll try not to become _too_ spammy.  There's still
+Twitter…
+
+
+In this pandemic I've seen a lot of rhetoric mirror the security
+discourse post 9/11.  Additional restrictions on public life are being
+advocated for, because they will save lives.  Checkpoints, new rules
+and regulations, everybody has an opinion on how things should be
+running and very frequently run to the state to enforce anything
+"health officials" say might work.
+
+Ultimately this virus is the perfect threat: you can't see it, you
+don't even know if you have it, you can endanger people by moving
+around freely.  And there will never again be a time when "but what
+about a virus" won't bu used to justify restrictions on the lives of
+people.
+
+And please don't interpret me saying these things as there being some
+conspiracy to enact authoritariasism, as much as that sounds like a
+novel you'd read, that's not how the world works.  This isn't
+plotting, it's simple fascist opportunism.
+