"Border patrol has enthusiastically followed Trump’s executive orders, even when they mired the agency deep in controversy such as when its agents removed infants from their mothers’ arms under Trump’s 2018 policy of family separation. The National Border Patrol Council, the agents’ union, is in lock-step with Trump. Of the top 20 posts on its Twitter feed, all but three are retweets of Trump’s personal or campaign messages."

For example, almost two-thirds of respondents were "very concerned" about the health risks associated with attending shows, festivals, movies or sporting events (66%) or plane travel (64%). Over half of Canadians said they were "very concerned" about large gatherings such as weddings and religious services (57%) or visiting someone in a retirement home or long-term care facility for seniors (55%).

More and more, police unions are looking very much like company forces.

In May, when a coronavirus outbreak hit nightclubs in the South Korean capital of Seoul, health officials quickly unleashed their version of the Navy Seals -- elite teams of epidemiologists, database specialists and laboratory technicians.