>"This year is ending with a rare cosmic alignment."

>"Starting Sunday at 11:59 p.m., 84% of California's population will be under new regional stay-at-home restrictions as hospitals' ICU capacity in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley plummets."

[https://medium.com/the-atlantic/the-logic-of-pandemic-restrictions-is-falling-apart-56359ed2e26c](https://medium.com/the-atlantic/the-logic-of-pandemic-restrictions-is-falling-apart-56359ed2e26c) >"This is why you can eat in a restaurant but can’t have Thanksgiving. ​​​"

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“Every new regimen ended in the same violent binge.”

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"Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens."

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"..the more you hold it, the more you’re contributing to increasing its value, the more mining rewards are being handed out, the more electricity’s being wasted on mining.”

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