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Honestly, for the US at least, the existing system is sloppy but workable.

* In times of crisis, the government abuses the Bill of Rights in a state of emergency

* People who feel sufficiently aggrieved can sue (once, y'know, order has been restored and courts are functioning)

* Sometimes, there is precedent showing the government overstepped and the plaintiff gets a nice payout to make them whole

It's win-win, in the sense that whatever the emergency was that necessitated infringement of rights can be mitigated and the aggrieved can essentially be retroactively bribed to be okay to be a part of a society that has survived a situation that exceeded the planned-for circumsntances the Constitution was written to handle.



I'd say it would have to be restricted to only novel airborne infectious diseases with an R0 greater than approximately 2.5.




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