EMERGENCY POWERS
Jul 26, 2020
3 minutes
Rob Verkerk The Politics of Health
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W e like to feel empowered in the knowledge we have control over our own destiny. But this idea has been somewhat shaken by the events of the last few months.
We are all now highly aware of the level of control that governments can have over our lives—in many cases these powers having laid dormant within various laws, only to be enacted once a state of emergency has been declared. That happened on March 11, when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared
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