America’s stimulus package is at around 10% of GDP. Britain, France and other European countries have offered so far loans and subsidies worth around 15% of their GDPs. > The size and scope of the state’s role in the economy prompted by the coronavirus dwarfs anything mounted to handle the 2008 financial crash. > People have been confined indoors, police powers have been expanded, data-surveillance increased and businesses shuttered. > As governments mobilize resources and coerce people in a life-and-death struggle to contain the coronavirus and mitigate its impact, the state has been unbound.
The lockdowns by democratic states with their draconian constraints on civil liberties and private enterprise fly in the face of an historical progression that’s seen the size and roles of governments shrunk and individual liberty boosted. “Emergency” Covid Measures: Are We Witnessing the Collapse of Individual Rights and Democracy? > Ap> In Global Life-Death Struggle, Democracy Changes Course > By Jamie Dettmer VOA > Outside wartime nothing like it as ever been seen before in modern Western history.
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