Sorry, Nate. No suspension of rights, not even temporarily. Once those rights are gone, they don’t come back.

I imagine conservatives would use it to rummage around to find women who had abortions.

Every crisis brings forth lots of people eager to say how the latest events reiterate that “now more than ever” we should do what I’ve long thought what we should.

What are some policy responses to the current crisis that you WOULDN’T normally favor?

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 22, 2020

*Temporary* suspensions of certain medical privacy laws to allow for better case tracking.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 22, 2020