Bước ngoặt trong cuộc chiến chống Covid-19 tại Mỹ

"phong tỏa" trước chỉ được nhắc đến khi nói về nhà tù, giờ thì...

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Victoria Lambert writes about Lionel Shriver. A slice:

Shriver’s generosity of spirit suddenly takes a sharp swerve. Ah yes, recent events. “I think lockdown was a catastrophic error,” she says. “It has caused terrible damage to specific people who have invested their whole lives in businesses – I can’t stand it.” Shriver mentions her own husband, American jazz drummer Jeffrey Williams, who has not been able to work.

Is she hopeful about Opening Up Day on June 21? Not really: “They won’t take away the power to do it again if they feel like it.”

This is not just concern over economics or catastrophic health effects (such as missed cancer diagnoses). “It is about what we have done to liberal democracy all over the world. We used to have civil rights. They were irrevocable. Now, they are revocable.

“We never used to talk about lockdowns except in prisons – then it became a thing in days. I have been horrified to see how people have adapted to the new circumstances. It is a violation of the country I thought I lived in.”

Shriver is not a disease-denier. She has had both vaccinations (“with not much agonising”) and would have approved of guidance for the elderly or immunocompromised to stay at home. But it is another thing “to tell them to stay home and send police out on the streets to enforce it”.

It is appalling, she says, “that this Government has taken hold of every aspect of our lives”.

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