Many nasty practices that shouldn't have existed ever are being relaxed now because, in the context of an epidemic, their nasty effects are revealed as intolerable — and because the justifications for them were weak or nonexistent in the first place.

Here's one more example: searching aggressively for people to deport.

And another: pressuring people to pay medical and student debts (but only those owed to New York State).

Alas, new rigid excesses are being imposed, including "Absolutely never meet a friend in person," and new unjust practices, such as "Do your studying, meeting and paying through nonfree software and digital dis-services that will track you."

The former will presumably disappear easily when the epidemic is over, but getting rid of the latter will require a fight. Therefore I continue refusing to use web sites that demand nonfree JS code, and not having a portable phone to track me with.