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Chapter 2 - Most well-researched pre-Covid pandemic planning was skeptical of all large scale NPIs to contain spread. Furthermore, early mortality rates of a novel pathogen are notoriously misleading. Pressure on politicians to appear 'tough' and in control compelled them to look for quick dramatic solutions in the contentious writings and plans of (generally math-centric) pro-NPI pandemic-modelers of the Bush era.
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These people think I’ll be shocked by the power-knowledge binary as if I haven’t read Foucault.
— Apr 14, 2025 09:08PM
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The authors are certainly Liberals: Their prescription is simply there should have been more rational debate during the pandemic. We certainly Agree there. Perhaps I am a little upset because the authors scrupulously refrain from caustic polemic or character attack; which I immaturely crave out of a desire for catharsis. For this stayed maturity of tone, only rarely slipping into derision, I praise the authors.
— Apr 11, 2025 08:48PM
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Chapter 3 - Despite vigorous scholarly debate in the early months of 2020, after the hasty publication of the pro-lockdown report by a joint WHO-Chinese commission in late February, combined with (the perennially histrionic) Dr. Niel Ferguson’s predictive models, and the Harvard released Safra report, elite consensus quickly concretizes around tech-intensive, society-wide, NPIs and bare-life moralizations.
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