We can trace the idea that desperate times call for desperate measures back to Hippocrates (who was also talking about diseases). In the extraordinary circumstances of the global pandemic, governments and legislative assemblies across the world responded with a variety of extraordinary legal tools to put a temporary halt to economic activity, enforce restrictions on the movements of citizens and save lives.
In the UK, the initial response took two main forms:
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