"Last week, a senior member of the Hezbollah Executive Council, Hisham Safieddine, said the party had 25,000 medics whom it had mobilised to treat patients. He said the party had placed 1,500 doctors and 3,000 nurses in public hospitals and was preparing empty hotels to be used as isolation areas. The party said it was monitoring 1,200 people who had returned from Iran. It did not say whether any were showing symptoms of the virus."

... the effects of COVID-19 will be more drastic than the effects of the terrorist attacks of 9/11: not only with respect to surveillance, but across many aspects of our society. And while many things that would never be acceptable during normal time are reasonable things to do right now, we need to makes sure we can ratchet them back once the current pandemic is over.

"Under the plan, the Supreme Court and National Electoral Council would be replaced and political prisoners released, according to the State Department document."