Christopher Caldwell has an excellent article in the New York Times (August 21) on the views of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben about Covid-19. Agamben points out that “The emergency declared by public-health experts replaces the discredited narrative of ‘national security experts’ as a pretext for withdrawing rights and privacy from citizens. Biosecurity now serves as a reason for governments to rule in terms of ‘worst-case scenarios.’ This means there is no level of cases or deaths below which locking down an entire nation of 60 million becomes unreasonable. Many European governments, including Italy’s, have developed national contact tracing apps … Continue reading Covid-19 and “Social Distancing”