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To: louel who wrote (74506)	2/23/2020 1:02:13 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) of 74559

The proliferation of guards and barriers everywhere, the ostentatious temperature-checking in public places–all recall the “security theater” that enveloped the US in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 ( the term was apparently coined by security expert Bruce Schneier, and popularized by James Fallows). ELMAT: We still perform the shoes off theater to this day! Who really knows if all these procedures help, but they make us feel safer, so we have to do them. The historian Maura Cunningham dubbed China’s response to the coronavirus outbreak “ quarantine theater“. The author wrotes about the reaction of the Chinese government to Covid-19. He shows that it is all about power play. The outbreak is very likely to burn itself out eventually as rising outside temperatures and humidity decrease the viability of the virus (the same reason that flu season naturally ends in the spring). When that happens, you can be sure that the propaganda machine will give full credit to the efforts of the government. The theater of state power Message 32564081

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