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For example, think about how many of the pandemic restrictions would have been called "slippery slope" in February 2020. Curfews? Closed businesses? Mask mandates? Silently-installed ___location-tracking apps? Vaccine mandates? Vaccine passports? Involuntary quarantine camps?



All of which were actually expressed in legislation already or passed by elected government and accepted by courts as valid consitutionally.

All of which have been used in the past, and, just like in the past, are being relaxed after they are no longer required.


Great points!

>Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II. The decision has been widely criticized,[1] with some scholars describing it as "an odious and discredited artifact of popular bigotry"[2] and as "a stain on American jurisprudence".[3] Chief Justice John Roberts explicitly repudiated the Korematsu decision in his majority opinion in the 2018 case of Trump v. Hawaii.[4] The case is often cited as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States


Agreed.

Let us also acknowledge that the government violated the 5th ammendment when force closing businesses, and I hope the nation gets sued into bankruptcy for that gross violation.




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