Passports were once a temporary measure
*planted: 01/07/2020last tended: 27/11/2021
I find this little nugget fascinating:
The history of passports – which were introduced as a seemingly temporary measure during the first world war, but were retained in response to fears about spreading the Spanish flu – shows that pandemics can significantly influence our social infrastructure.
– Privacy is not the problem with the Apple-Google contact-tracing toolkit
The temporary becomes the norm.
1. Elsewhere
1.1. In my garden
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