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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /321/ Covid Dissensus ft. Toby Green & Thomas Fazi
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On The Covid Consensus.
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We're joined by two authors whose new book asks why lockdowns were adopted almost universally. National and transnational health authorities dropped pre-pandemic plans in favour of open-ended nationwide lockdowns which were to remain in place until vaccines were developed. Why this course of action?Â
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And how to account for the unprecedented level of policy alignment across the majority of countries: was it coordination, imitation, or coercion?
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In part two of the interview, we discuss the devastating impact of lockdowns on poor and middle-income countries where the informal economy is the norm. Â
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