Originally Posted by
RustyChain
Yes I get it, but that's just paranoia.
The politicians are responsible, and I follow the maxim, never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
Absolutely not incompetence; authority figures of all types and all levels are drunk on power and will hold on to it as long as they can get away with it. They'll use new rationale after rationale to prolong the "crisis" ad infinitum until somebody steps up and stops them.