Cory on Pluralistic.net:

It’s no coincidence that farms and farmers have been leaders in Right to Repair: when you’re isolated and you’re not allowed to fix your stuff, it means that you can neither nip down to the shops for a replacement, nor easily have an authorized repair tech come to your place.

Covid can put everyone – even entire nations – into the position of that isolated farmer.

And if Covid turns out to be a fizzle – and let’s pray that it is on a global scale, although it’s already awful for the people effected – it’ll be something else. Natural and man-made disasters are inevitable, and they will require us to make repairs locally, not wait for authorization from a big corporation.