In neighbouring Serbia, soldiers patrol the streets as part of the coronavirus response plan. “Extraordinary legal situations are very easy to introduce, but it is much harder to return to business as usual afterwards,” said the Budapest-based thinktank Political Capital in response to the Hungarian measures. He said the new law only covers those who intentionally spread fake information that hampers the government response to coronavirus. Once surveillance measures are brought in for the coronavirus, it may be hard to argue against keeping them in place for hypothetical future threats. “If in the end, people have the feeling they were manipulated then maybe we will see resistance to all these measures.

Source: The Guardian March 31, 2020 16:41 UTC