What a terribly ignorant comment, but I suppose it is indicative of what HN has devolved into. 500 former world leaders and Nobel Laureates agree with me [1], but random Internet poster guy (along with all of the geniuses that downvoted my comments in this thread) thinks it’s out something straight out of Qanon. My source for that is undoubtedly one you implicitly trust...CNN. Not “Q”. Here is a direct quote from it:

”...the letter's chief warning is that countries with strong democratic traditions could use the pandemic to introduce extraordinary measures that in the long run become ordinary, doing permanent damage to global democracy...”

You, and those who think and act like you, really should educate yourselves before you criticize things you apparently know absolutely nothing about. You guys are turning the Internet into a toxic place where discussion of undeniable facts, from your own news sources and in this case brought to light by a collection of 500 of the world’s most credible people, are dismissed as wild conspiracy theories - simply because those facts might call into question the motives of politicians you blindly support.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/europe/coronavirus-authoritar...