In truth, the factor that has changed the tactics of the American administration is less legal than mechanical: the advent of drones that can be directed with lethal accuracy (most of the time) from offices in Virginia.
Like all new drugs, any vaccine for flu - even one for a particularly lethal strain of the virus - will take time to develop and to be made available to the public.
This time lawmakers tried to help folks whose financial lives were shattered by the lethal interaction of the 2000 tech-stock crash, incentive stock options and the alternative minimum tax.