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> Agreed, but you haven't demonstrated that these checks and balances have been violated.

I mentioned specifically Italy, because that's where I live and where our freedoms where completely thrown out of the window by, as I said, an administrative act (not even the equivalent of an executive order, nor a law), from one day to another. An act that shouldn't have had that force, but well... rules were bent.

(A year later, people were also deprived of their ability to go to school or to work, which regardless of the reason, was equally bad)

> What volumes does it speak?

That while the event wasn't predicted, it sparked ideas on how to "revolutionize" society in a "different" way (the actual passage was about taking the pandemic as an opportunity to bring forth "a new cultural hegemony of the left"), not caring about consequences.

And we see the same with other aspect of society (misinformation, climate policies...). Some EU commissioners (Timmermanns to name one, until he was in office) are hell-bent in that direction (although this time there's significant pushback).

> those governments did what they felt they were elected to do

Outside my country, in many others (e.g. Spain), courts actually said that well, governments weren't allowed to do what they did.