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Is 'Lockdown' in U.S. Law?

Is 'Lockdown' in U.S. Law?

A Substack Notes exchange with Katherine Watt

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I don’t love the word ‘lockdown’.

I used to be fine with it, but sometime in 2023, the term started to bother me, to the point I asked an editor to remove it from a headline he’d given my republished article.1 I spelled out some of my sentiments about the term last year in this reaction to remarks made by Scott Atlas.

Yesterday, I put the question of whe…

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