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The Optimism of the Authoritarian Lockdown
Once the fear did decrease to a somewhat normal level, we didn't find the attractions of the authoritarian lockdown sufficient to continue in that direction. So there is some optimism in that. We reverted back to being a free society. There is. I mean, but you still see hints of things that are sort of leftover like drives to eliminate respiratory viruses from buildings based on ventilation and filtering or engine building engineering. And so the idea of eliminating respiratory viruses from the air that we breathe, I think is not right. It's a dangerous idea.