On 17 Nov 2020 I saw the tweet below from Germany’s most reputable newspaper (if there is such a thing). I honestly thought it had to be a fake. It’s not. Unfortunately, most of the article is behind a paywall, but even the tweet is enough to get a flavour. It reads: “The high Covid-numbers in many Western countries beg the unsettling question whether open societies are less suited to react to global threats than authoritarian systems. This calls for a new debate.”
