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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Toxic Ideas Behind the Quest for ‘Zero Covid’
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Dr. Amesh Adalja discuss the ethics of infectious disease and evaluate the continued push for stringent paternalistic measures to combat Covid, including the Chinese government’s push for “Zero Covid.”
Among the topics covered:
Why Covid is now endemic, not a pandemic;
How an individualized harm reduction framework can help us navigate a world in which infectious disease is an inescapable fact;
The egalitarian moral ideal behind prominent arguments for paternalistic measures such as mask mandates;
Why egalitarianism is wrong;
The ideas motivating China’s push for “Zero Covid”;
The flawed approa...