Opinion: COVID-19 sliced away freedom in the United States
March must be a bad month for civil liberties. In addition to the third anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, it’s the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Both have sliced away freedom in the United States, and their stories are intertwined.
In addition to overseeing 22 federal agencies, the secretary of Homeland Security was now tasked with the responsibility to make sure “all levels of government across the Nation have the capability to work efficiently and effectively together, using a national approach to domestic incident management.” Specifically, “The Secretary will coordinate with State and local governments to ensure adequate planning, equipment, training and exercise activities.
The president had no power to order state, local or tribal governments to comply, but that hurdle was easily overcome by threatening to withhold federal funds. All federal departments and agencies were ordered to make adoption of the NIMS a requirement for providing “Federal preparedness assistance through grants, contracts or other activities.”Perhaps this is why authorities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, at least at the beginning, seemed like a weirdly psychic chorus.
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