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Can you prepare for pandemics without a surveillance state?: Civil libertarians
The ratchet that never resets After 2001, surveillance powers sold as temporary emergency measures became permanent furniture; two decades on, almost none were given back. We have seen this movie, and we can recite the ending.... Can you prepare for pandemics without a surveillance state?: Distributed-preparedness advocates
Reading the sewers In 2022, wastewater surveillance in London and New York found poliovirus circulating before a single paralytic case was reported. No one was tracked. No phone was pinged. The signal came up out of the infrastructure itself.... Can you prepare for pandemics without a surveillance state?: Institutional reformers
What 1980 proved In 1980 the World Health Organization certified smallpox eradicated — a disease that killed 300 million people in the twentieth century, gone, because institutions did the unglamorous work of surveillance, ring vaccination, and coordination at planetary scale....