WHAT BOYS DO BEST

The Economist April, 2020

This (corona virus) is an emergency like no other. Governments need extra tools to cope with it. No fewer than 84 have enacted emergency laws vesting extra authority in the executive. In some cases, these powers are necessary to fight the pandemic and will be relinquished when it is over. But in many cases, they are not, and won’t be. Unscrupulous autocrats are exploiting the pandemic to do what they always do: grab power at the expense of the people they govern.