lockdown
description: an emergency protocol that restricts movement, often implemented during public health crises like pandemics
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Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright · 23 Aug 2021 · 652pp · 172,428 words
coal and copper mining, shipbuilding, textile production, wholesale and (to a lesser extent) retail trade, and entertainment. It is also noteworthy, given controversies over COVID-19 lockdowns, that U.S. cities that took more aggressive public health interventions to contain the pandemic, such as Oakland, California, and Omaha, Nebraska, appear to have
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of the group praised Xi for having “personally directed and deployed the prevention and control work” on the virus.35 Within a month of the lockdown, the virus in Wuhan appeared to be under control. Extraordinary containment measures, it seemed, had worked.36 Going into the spring, China took other actions unfathomable
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for Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, and France itself. The move infuriated Sweden, which had adopted its own novel approach to the pandemic of avoiding lockdowns or restrictions by seeking herd immunity. Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven raised the matter directly with Macron. A Swedish official told the Irish Times
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Oceania dealt with the pandemic better than the rest of the world, but they also displayed revealing differences. Remarkably, most managed to contain the pandemic without national lockdowns (New Zealand being an exception), preferring to couple extensive testing with aggressive contact-tracing programs and targeted quarantine efforts to isolate those infected. Virtually
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sector, the development of complex financial instruments, and the widespread distribution of risk that was poorly understood. In 2020, the cause was clear—the pandemic and the forced lockdown of the economy—but the effect would still be complex and surprising. On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, stock exchanges in the United States
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the globalized system is rigged in favor of the elite while ordinary people get left behind. Now the disruptions and disparities produced by COVID-19 and the Great Lockdown threatened to turbocharge these tensions. THEY COULD NOT GIVE IT AWAY The view from Long Beach, California, is normally pristine and clear, but
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Raipur town in Lakshimpur district in southern Bangladesh to recite Khatme Shifa prayers (Quranic verses of healing) in the hopes of warding off the coronavirus.6 Throughout the lockdown, large numbers of individuals gathered at kitchen markets and relief distribution centers, and internal migrants—suddenly out of work—streamed out of Dhaka
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cope with the floods. Prior to COVID-19, many rural Bangladeshis adapted to seasonal flooding by working in cities until the water receded. The pandemic and lockdown turned this pattern on its head, forcing many living in urban areas to return home to their flood-prone villages.39 One of them was
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protocols—had limited impact in many developing ones. Too many governments in low- and middle-income countries lacked the capacity to capitalize on lockdowns to quickly ramp up COVID testing, contact tracing (which requires a large health care labor force), and workable isolation strategies. They were also unable to rapidly build up
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to pensions and financial safety nets.”91 This combination meant that millions of Peruvians had little to no cushion against the twin shocks of the pandemic and lockdown. The veneer of meteoric economic progress had obscured these underlying realities—but COVID-19 revealed them. Economic assistance from the government helped, but the
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, efforts by UN agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and their partners to ramp up assistance to vulnerable refugee populations faced significant challenges. Travel restrictions and lockdowns prompted by the pandemic disrupted aid shipments to refugee camps.93 And some nongovernmental organizations were forced to decrease the number of staff going into camps in order
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by the COVID-19 crisis. As we saw in Chapters 4 and 5, the WHO was overly deferential to China for much of the pandemic. Its advice on lockdowns and travel restrictions left much to be desired. Having said that, it is also clear the WHO felt trapped between two rival superpowers
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an urgent need for bilateral and multilateral assistance to help developing nations recover from the developmental and humanitarian catastrophes set in motion by the coronavirus and the Great Lockdown. Decades of poverty alleviation have been reversed. We have a moral obligation and a strategic interest to recover what has been lost and
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-emergency.html. 47. William Sposato, “Japan’s Halfhearted Coronavirus Measures Are Working Anyway,” Foreign Policy, May 14, 2020, https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/14/japan-coronavirus-pandemic-lockdown-testing/; Lawrence Repeta, “The Coronavirus and Japan’s Constitution,” Japan Times, April 14, 2020, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/14/commentary/japan
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/09/22/911934489/enormous-and-tragic-u-s-has-lost-more-than-200–000-people-to-covid-19. 58. “Journalists Detained, Assaulted in India During COVID-19 Lockdown,” Committee to Protect Journalists, April 28, 2020, https://cpj.org/2020/04/journalists-detained-assaulted-in-india-during-cov/. 59. Christophe Jaffrelot and Jean
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Crisis Consolidates Populist Rapport Between a Leader and a Fictional Representation of People,” Indian Express, April 29, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/india-covid-19-coronavirus-lockdown-narendra-modi-6383721/; Aparna Sundar and Alf Gunvald Nilsen, “COVID-19 in Narendra Modi’s India: Virulent Politics and Mass Desperation,” The Wire, August
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.org/quick-reads/netanyahu-admits-israels-economy-reopened-too-soon; Ariel Oseran, “Israel Considers a Second Lockdown as Coronavirus Cases Surge,” The World, July 17, 2020, https://www.pri.org/stories/2020–070–17/israel-considers-second-lockdown-coronavirus-cases-surge; Anshel Pfeffer, “Why Netanyahu Failed the Coronavirus Stress Test,” Haaretz, July 10, 2020
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, 2020, https://apnews.com/article/a6cced0c1975a8859d2d227cf5d79700; Md. Kamruzzaman and SM Najmus Sakib, “Bangladesh Imposes Total Lockdown over COVID-19,” Anadolu Agency, March 25, 2020, https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/bangladesh-imposes-total-lockdown-over-covid-19/1778272; Julhas Alam, “Soldiers Enforce 10-Day Shutdown in Bangladesh to Slow Virus,” Associated Press
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, March 26, 2020, https://apnews.com/article/0e6b79ee96d3e1f30b67c1878db34927; Md. Kamruzzaman, “COVID-19: Bangladesh Extends Lockdown Until May 30,” Anadolu Agency, May 14, 2020, https://www
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.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/covid-19-bangladesh-extends-lockdown-until-may-30/1840126. 6. Saiful Islam Swapan, “25,000 Perform ‘Khatme Shifa’ to
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-bangladeshi-garment-workers-lose-jobs-amid-covid-19-economic-fallout. 16. Quoted in “Bangladesh Garment Factories Reopen, Defying Virus Lockdown,” Barron’s, April 26, 2020, https://www.barrons.com/news/bangladesh-garment-factories-reopen-defying-virus-lockdown-01587898510. 17. Lauren Frayer, “For Bangladesh’s Struggling Garment Workers, Hunger Is a Bigger Worry Than Pandemic
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, “Covid vs. Democracy: South Africa’s Lockdown Misfire,” Journal of Democracy 31, no. 4 (October 2020): 106–21, https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/covid-vs-democracy-south-africas-lockdown-misfire/. 53. Gerald Imray and Joseph Krauss, “Worst Virus Fears Are Realized in Poor or War-Torn Countries,” Associated Press, June 28, 2020
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, August 17, 2020, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/why-lockdowns-dont-work-in-lower-income-countries/. 55. S. A. Madhi et al., “COVID-19 Lockdowns in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Success Against COVID-19 at the Price of Greater Costs,” South African Medical Journal 110, no. 8 (June 2020
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Health Organization Africa, May 28, 2020, https://www.afro.who.int/news/who-urges-caution-countries-africa-ease-lockdowns. 64. “WHO Recommends Pakistan Reimpose Intermittent Lockdowns as COVID-19 Cases Rise Sharply,” Reuters, June 9, 2020, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-pakistan-who/who-recommends-pakistan-reimpose-intermittent
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health-organization-who-coronavirus-press-conference-july-10. 65. Bruce Y. Lee, “WHO Warning About Covid-19 Coronavirus Lockdowns Is Taken out of Context,” Forbes, October 13, 2020, https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/10/13/who-warning-about
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Happening in Peru,” BBC News, July 9, 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53150808. 95. Dube, “Coronavirus Hits Peru Hard Despite Strict Lockdown.” 96. “Coronavirus: Peru Economy Sinks 40% in April amid Lockdown,” BBC, June 16, 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53051157; Joaquín Cottani, “The
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modified December 3, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/world/middleeast/iran-protests-deaths.html. 15. Sadeghi, “Why Hassan Rouhani Ended Iran’s Lockdown.” 16. “COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering,” Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, Coronavirus Resource Center, accessed January 1, 2021, https://coronavirus.jhu
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.france24.com/en/20201003-iran-reimposes-restrictive-virus-measures-in-tehran; “Iran Expands Anti-Virus Measures as Calls for Lockdown Grow,” Jordan Times, November 1, 2020, http://www.jordantimes.com/news/region/iran%C2%A0expands-anti-virus-measures-calls-lockdown-grow. 19. Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, “COVID-19 Dashboard”; “Iran Official: Coronavirus Deaths Could
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29, 2020, https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-keeps-sri-lanka-without-a-functioning-parliament/a-53615108; Sarah Repucci and Amy Slipowitz, Democracy Under Lockdown: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Struggle for Freedom (Washington, DC: Freedom House, 2020), 5, https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2020–10/COVID-19
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/2020/09/rwandan-drones-take-to-air-with-covid-19-messages/. 5. Beaubien, “Why Rwanda Is Doing Better Than Ohio.” 6. “Rwanda Re-Imposes Strict Lockdown in Capital After COVID-19 Cases Surge,” Reuters, January 19, 2021, https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-rwanda/rwanda-re-imposes-strict
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, https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/21/how-the-coronavirus-crisis-is-silencing-dissent-and-sparking-repression/. 12. Sarah Repucci and Amy Slipowitz, Democracy Under Lockdown: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Struggle for Freedom (Washington: Freedom House, 2020), 7–8, https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2020–10/COVID-19
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-them. 15. Youngs and Panchulidze, “Global Democracy & COVID-19,” 11; Repucci and Slipowitz, Democracy Under Lockdown, 4. 16. “UN Raises Alarm About Police Brutality in COVID-19 Lockdowns,” Al Jazeera, April 28, 2020, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/4/28/un-raises-alarm-about-police-brutality-in
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-covid-19-lockdowns; Mary Beth Sheridan and Anna-Catherine Brigida, “Photos Show El Salvador’s Crackdown on Imprisoned Gang Members,” Washington Post, April 28, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.
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2020): 511–15, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234274/; “How Hong Kong Beat Coronavirus and Avoided Lockdown,” CNBC, July 2, 2020, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/03/how-hong-kong-beat-coronavirus-and-avoided-lockdown.html. 49. McLaughlin, “Where the Pandemic Is Cover for Authoritarianism.” 50. Quoted in Helen Davidson
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Attended Multiple Anti-Lockdown Protests, Photos and Videos Show,” Washington Post, November 1, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/11/01/michigan-kidnapping-plot-coronavirus-lockdown-whitmer/?arc404=true&itid=hp-more-top-stories; Kathleen Gray, “In Michigan, a Dress Rehearsal for the Chaos at the Capitol on Wednesday,” New York
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Times, May 6, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/lebanon-protests-coronavirus.html. 73. “Tense Anti-Government Protests Resume in Lebanon After Covid-19 Lockdown Lifted,” France 24, June 6, 2020, https://www.france24.com/en/20200606-tense-anti-government-protests-resume-in-lebanon-after
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impact elections during geopolitical impact hotspots national lockdowns national variations in responses to origins of pre-pandemic trends superspreader events in Wuhan See also COVID-19 vaccines; Great Lockdown; SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 vaccines AstraZeneca BBIBP-CorV CoronaVac COVAX (COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access) emergency use authorizations in Europe Gavi, the
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy
by Adam Tooze · 15 Nov 2021 · 561pp · 138,158 words
. But if we trace the broader course of events and, in particular, if we focus, as this book does, on the economic reaction to the pandemic, lockdown seems a one-sided way of describing the reaction to the coronavirus. Mobility fell precipitately, well before government orders were issued. The flight to safety
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credit supply and interest rates, but unlike in the banking crisis of 2008, they could not reach the source of the crisis itself, the coronavirus and the lockdown. The markets were waiting for news from Washington, but not from the Fed, from Congress. How much would America’s politicians mobilize in support
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meet a sweltering summer. As forests burned, the prison crews on which the Golden State normally relies to fight its fires were quarantined by the Covid lockdown.55 Europe was, in fact, spared most of these blows, but opinion polls show that people understood coronavirus as an indication of how seriously to
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states that were first to lift the lockdown, true-believing pro-Trump red states, were seeing economic activity relapse. The problem was not the lockdowns but the virus.25 Until it could be controlled and confidence restored, work life, shopping and socializing, schooling, and childcare could not return to anything like normal
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to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Mainland China: A Narrative Review,” Journal of Thoracic Disease 12, no. 8 (2020): 4434–49. 39. F. Tang, “Coronavirus Prompts Beijing Residential Lockdown as Millions Return to Work,” South China Morning Post, February 10, 2020. 40. R. McMorrow, C. Shepherd, and T. Mitchell, “China Struggles to
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. F. Rousseaux, “Coronavirus: 35 millions de Français devant l’allocution de Macron, un record d’audience absolu,” Le Parisien, March 17, 2020. 22. N. Aspinwall, “Coronavirus Lockdown Launches Manila Into Pandemonium,” Foreign Policy, March 14, 2020. 23. K. Varagur, “Indonesia’s Government Was Slow to Lock Down, So Its People Took Charge
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Days to Slow the Spread.’ ” 43. V. Chandrashekhar, “1.3 Billion People. A 21-Day Lockdown. Can India Curb the Coronavirus?” Science, March 31, 2020. 44. Chandrashekhar, “1.3 Billion People. A 21-Day Lockdown. Can India Curb the Coronavirus?” 45. K. Komireddi, “Modi’s India Isn’t Prepared for the Coronavirus,” Foreign Policy
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, “China Laps U.S. in Latin America with Covid-19 Diplomacy,” Bloomberg, June 24, 2020. 52. L. Paraguassu and J. McGeever, “Brazil Government Ad Rejects Coronavirus Lockdown, Saying #BrazilCannotStop,” Reuters, March 27, 2020. 53. “Federal Judge Bans Bolsonaro’s ‘Brazil Cannot Stop’ Campaign,” teleSUR, March 28, 2020. 54. D. Agren, “Mexican Governor
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York Times, March 31, 2020. CHAPTER 5. FREE FALL 1. D. Chronopoulos, M. Lukas, and J. Wilson, “Real-Time Consumer Spending Responses to COVID-19 Crisis and Lockdown,” VoxEU, May 6, 2020. 2. V. Carvalho, J. R. García, et al., “Tracking the COVID-19 Crisis Through the Lens of 1.4 Billion
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Employer Health Coverage During the Pandemic?” Commonwealth Fund, October 7, 2020. 21. H. Meyers-Belkin, “ ‘Today Is Wonderful’: Relief in Lagos as Nigeria Emerges from Covid-19 Lockdown,” France24, May 5, 2020. 22. E. Akinwotu, “ ‘People Are More Scared of Hunger’: Coronavirus Is Just One More Threat in Nigeria,” Guardian, May 15
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, 2020. 23. O. Sunday, “Gangs Terrorised Africa’s Largest City in Coronavirus Lockdown. Vigilantes Responded,” South China Morning Post, May 18, 2020. N. Orjinmo and A. Ulohotse, “Lagos Unrest: The Mystery of Nigeria’s Fake Gangster Attacks,” BBC
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. Jones, L. Tondo, K. Connolly, and K. Gillet, “Covid-19 Crisis Stokes European Tensions over Migrant Labour,” Guardian, May 11, 2020. M. Andriescu, “Under Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Europe Feels the Pinch from Slowed Intra-EU Labor Mobility,” Migration Policy Institute, May 1, 2020. 53. M. Weisskircher, J. Rone, and M. S
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Flyers Left: Migrant Workers in the EU in Times of Covid-19,” Open Democracy, April 20, 2020. 54. S. Jha, “Migrant Workers Head Home in Coronavirus Lockdown, Exposed and Vulnerable,” Business Standard, March 26, 2020. 55. A. K. B. Basu, and J. M. Tapia, “The Complexity of Managing COVID-19: How Important
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Is Good Governance?” Brookings, November 17, 2020. 56. “21 Days and Counting: COVID-19 Lockdown, Migrant Workers, and the Inadequacy of Welfare Measures in India,” Stranded Workers Action Network, April 15, 2020. 57. “The Jobs Bloodbath of April 2020,” Centre
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Projections,” July 15, 2020; repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/45784/1/S2000470_en.pdf. 8. O. Sunday, “Gangs Terrorised Africa’s Largest City in Coronavirus Lockdown. Vigilantes Responded,” South China Morning Post, May 18, 2020. 9. S. Dixit, Y. K. Ogundeji, and O. Onwujekwe, “How Well Has Nigeria Responded to COVID
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., “COVID-19 Has Revived the Social Contract in Advanced Economies—For Now. What Will Stick Once the Crisis Abates?” 30. “Job Retention Schemes During the COVID-19 Lockdown and Beyond,” OECD, October 12, 2020. 31. M. Konczal, “Unemployment Insurance Is a Vital Part of Economic Freedom,” The Nation, June 15/22, 2020
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11. AMERICA’S NATIONAL CRISIS 1. K. Bennhold, “Germany’s Coronavirus Protests Anti-Vaxxers, Anticapitalists, Neo-Nazis,” New York Times, May 18, 2020. “Protests Against Coronavirus Lockdown Measures Spread in the UK and Across Europe,” ABC News, May 16, 2020. W. Callison and Q. Slobodian, “Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol
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pandemic response, 65–66; and early responses to pandemic, 22–23, 54–57; and global response to pandemic spread, 96, 97; and inevitability of pandemics, 44–45; and “lockdown” term, 9; pollution declines from pandemic, 67; and Sweden’s response to pandemic, 85; and Trump’s failures of leadership, 81. See also
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
by Nicholas A. Christakis · 27 Oct 2020 · 475pp · 127,389 words
the Chinese numbers were fuzzy. To be clear, China, and other countries that subsequently implemented their own lockdowns, had not eradicated the virus; it had merely temporarily stopped its spread. When the lockdowns were lifted, the virus would come back.37 My personal involvement with COVID-19 research began the day after Wuhan initiated
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.C. Hernández, “The Test a Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak Poses to China’s Leadership,” New York Times, January 21, 2020. 25 E. Xie, “Build-Up to Coronavirus Lockdown: Inside China’s Decision to Close Wuhan,” South China Morning Post, April 2, 2020. 26 D.L. Yang, “China’s Early Warning System Didn’t
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al., “Cryptic Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington State,” medRxiv, April 16, 2020. 40 P. Robison et al., “Seattle’s Patient Zero Spread Coronavirus despite Ebola-Style Lockdown,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 9, 2020. 41 M. Worobey et al., “The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and the US,” bioRxiv, May
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Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020," JAMA Internal Medicine, July 1, 2020. 87 G. He et al., “The Short-Term Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown on Urban Air Pollution in China,” Nature Sustainability, July 7, 2020; R.K. Philip et al., “Reduction in Preterm Births during the
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COVID-19 Lockdown in Ireland: A Natural Experiment Allowing Analysis of Data from the Prior Two Decades,” medRxiv, June 5, 2020; G. Hedermann et al., “Changes in Premature
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Birth Rates during the Danish Nationwide COVID-19 Lockdown: A Nationwide Register-Based Prevalence Proportion Study,” medRxiv, May 23, 2020. 88 K.I. Bos et al., “A Draft Genome of Yersinia pestis from
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,” Emerging Infectious Diseases 2005; 11: 1249–1256. 4 D. Cole and A. Main, “Top Infectious Disease Expert Doesn’t Rule Out Supporting Temporary National Lockdown to Combat Coronavirus,” CNN, March 15, 2020. 5 J. Kates et al., “Stay-at-Home Orders to Fight COVID-19 in the United States: The Risks of
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: 31–41. 27 N. Raza, “What Single People Are Starting to Realize,” New York Times, May 18, 2020. 28 Anonymous, “Domestic Violence Has Increased during Coronavirus Lockdowns,” The Economist, April 23, 2020. 29 S. Zimmermann and S. Charles, “Chicago Domestic Violence Calls Up 18% in First Weeks of Coronavirus Shutdown,” Chicago Sun
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Journal of Medicine 2018; 378: 314–316. 7. Things Change 1 E. Gibney, “Coronavirus Lockdowns Have Changed the Way Earth Moves,” Nature, March 31, 2020.; T. Lecocq et al., “Global Quieting of High-Frequency Seismic Noise Due to COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown Measures,” Science, July 23, 2020. 2 L. Boyle, “Himalayas Seen for First Time
The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
by Noreena Hertz · 13 May 2020 · 506pp · 133,134 words
more performatively and compulsively in pursuit of likes, retweets and follows, eroding our ability to communicate effectively or empathetically. This held true even during the coronavirus lockdown. For alongside the Pope live-streaming his daily Mass on Facebook, DJ D-Nice throwing a dance party attended by more than 100,000 people
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corporations can’t act with compassion and care towards their workers; we saw some inspiring behaviour on the part of some big corporations during the pandemic lockdown period. Microsoft, for example, announced in early March 2020 that contract workers on its Pacific Northwest campuses – including shuttle drivers, café workers, maintenance and cleaning
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New Frontier of Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2019). Notes CHAPTER ONE: This is the Lonely Century 1 ‘Covid-19: One Third of Humanity under Virus Lockdown’, The Economic Times, 25 March 2020, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/covid-19-one-third-of-humanity-under
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in here, here community service in here Frey, Carl here Furhat (robot) here Future of Work programme here Garner, Simon here Gates, Bill here Germany Covid-19 lockdown in here prevalence of loneliness in here populism in here, here, here city life in here work in here ‘Deutschland Spricht’ (‘Germany Talks’) programme
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle With Coronavirus
by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott · 18 Mar 2021 · 432pp · 143,491 words
over taking decisive action had devastating consequences that have continued to reverberate throughout the year, and those days in the lead-up to lockdown were especially important. The virus had been doubling every three days, which meant that any small delay in bringing in the lockdown would cause a huge increase in
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– three days after Shi submitted her paper on RaTG13 to Nature – Wuhan became the first city in the world to go into lockdown to combat the new virus. The virus’s human cost in the city would eventually be huge, with 4,000 people losing their lives by March, according to official figures
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badly hit by the contagion. Hundreds of people with laboured breathing, fever and fatigue had been entering the hospital seeking treatment for the virus. In the week before lockdown, more than 30 people in the area died from coronavirus infections. It meant Northwick Park had more patients than it could cope with
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published, Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive, had told an online discussion held by The Spectator magazine that the biggest mistake of the pandemic had been the late lockdown, which he blamed in part on ‘the absence of testing’. He said seven out of ten people of working age who died from
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large numbers of dying patients who had been deprived of access to care they would have normally received at the beginning of the pandemic. ‘In reality, the late lockdown allowed far more infections to spread across the country than the NHS had the capacity to cope with,’ he said. ‘It left dedicated
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the UK’s 45,000. At the beginning of that week – on Monday 18 May – the country had managed to record no new Covid-19 cases, yet the lockdown was still being maintained. Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, would lift all restrictions in early June, but only after reporting zero
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measures, which were being resisted by the more hawkish Sunak. His approach went against the findings of the World Bank that early strong lockdowns and control of the virus were the best hope for a country’s economy. Even if he didn’t want to listen to the government’s scientists, it
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June 2020. 7. ‘Serious weaknesses in the UK’s current plans for suppressing covid-19 risk a second major outbreak’, BMJ, 5 June 2020. 8. ‘Coronavirus lockdown: Now it’s the economy, stupid’, The Sunday Times, 7 June 2020. 9. ‘Boris Johnson is tied up in knots over the coronavirus’, The Sunday
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preferred choice for prime minister’, Guardian, 27 June 2020. 14. ‘Public trust in UK government over coronavirus falls sharply’, Guardian, 1 June 2020. 15. ‘Coronavirus: Easing several lockdown rules at once could boost virus, say UK scientists’, Guardian, 24 June 2020. 13: A Reckless Summer 1. ‘“Raise a glass”: UK Treasury faces
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, 124, 125–7, 131, 135, 137, 341, 342, 383; ‘irrational’ panic of Covid-19, dismissive of 4, 107–9, 204; lockdown measures and, see lockdowns, UK Covid-19; love affairs and children 116–121, 127–31; marriage 117, 118–19, 120–1; Mothers’ Day mixed message 214–15, 216; NHS surcharge for
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, 55, 62, 101, 225–6, 286, 364 Lee, Phillip 89–90, 200–1 Li Wenliang 34–5, 81 Liu Xiaoming 56–7, 123, 124 lockdowns, UK Covid-19: behavioural fatigue concept and 201–2; Christmas and New Year restrictions (2020–21) 356, 385–95, 404; curfews 362–3, 369; dither and delay
Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One
by Debora MacKenzie · 13 Jul 2020 · 266pp · 80,273 words
reported more than 1,500 confirmed cases, but 15 US states had—and most Chinese provinces have more people. Some places, however, contained the virus without the disruptive lockdowns needed in China and the West. Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan probably gave the world its best model for how to
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may suffer when one is attacked. A loose network absorbs shock; a tightly coupled one transmits it. That is happening in the Covid-19 pandemic. Countries go into lockdown; people stop shopping, traveling, and producing; and the effects ricochet through a tightly coupled global economy. The global supply chains of money, materials
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grids or essential manufacturing, or global supply chain managers are not all readily replaced. Even transient absences of key workers can cause snowballing problems. During Covid-19 lockdowns, oil refineries are shutting due to plummeting demand as air and road traffic fall. In a pandemic with a high loss of people, absence
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containment measures ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday could prevent the virus spreading out of control across China. Chinese scientists announced the virus was contagious, and the lockdowns began. As we saw, research suggests that if those measures had been taken earlier, the epidemic might have been knocked back, although not
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.com.cn/c/2020-02-08/doc-iimxyqvz1150881.shtml. 22. Authorities later… enforced: Josephine Ma and Zhuang Pinghui, “5 million left Wuhan before lockdown, 1,000 new coronavirus cases expected in city,” South China Morning Post, January 26, 2020, www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047720/chinese-premier-li-keqiang-head
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee · 10 Mar 2025 · 393pp · 146,371 words
the field of public health. Diversity of opinion on such m atters should have been taken more seriously and debated more openly when the Covid pandemic began. Once lockdowns were imposed, however, those who dissented from Blue-state orthodoxies were vilified and dismissed as “cranks,” their motives impugned and their social media feeds
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conventional view, that NPIs w ere of l imited use and too costly as policy responses to a respiratory pandemic like Covid. Mere months before Covid lockdowns, leading health agencies around the world recommended against the very policies that were widely embraced early in the Covid pandemic. Next, we discuss the pre
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in the summer of 2020, establishment tolerance of dissent, and mainstream media outlets’ willingness to entertain it, declined sharply. The Chinese strategy of virus suppression through society-wide lockdowns reflected the logic of the modelers, previously untried on any large scale in the real world. Abandoning skepticism, the WHO flatly declared that
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-level government scientists, from China’s National Health Commission and elsewhere. The Joint Mission’s report includes data showing cases rapidly falling following the lockdowns and identifies the virus’s source as the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. The report states, “The cordon sanitaire around Wuhan and neighboring municipalities imposed since 23 January
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the government in China, plus the extensive state security apparatus, those assessments seem apt. No doubt, many Chinese citizens w ere patient with lockdown policies required by “zero-Covid.” In places without press freedoms and where the costs of dissent are very high, it is hard to know what people really think
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was due to the policy measures taken? Moreover, it was also known at the time that millions of people had escaped the Wuhan lockdown.47 Given that Covid’s symptoms are often indistinguishable from other respiratory viruses, t here was not a sound basis for proclaiming that the virus had been contained
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Events began to move very quickly, and the WHO report was not the only thing that propelled the embrace of society-w ide lockdowns in defiance of pre-Covid pandemic planning. On February 20, 2020, the WHO announced that more than half of the world’s known cases of Covid-19 outside
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that 98–99 percent of infections from Covid were mild: vulnerability was concentrated among the elderly, especially t hose with other health problems. Covid lockdowns and school closures would themselves cause harm, including from social isolation and loss of economic security. “Clamping down the whole population,” as in China, would
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did not, there was hardly any difference in the rate of transmission.” Assuming the measures did work, the only way to suppress the virus would be by draconian lockdowns for a year and a half or more, u ntil a vaccine could be devised and widely administered. Society could not remain shut
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be tested), and “supportively isolate” t hose who test positive to prevent spreading the virus to others. Test, trace, and isolate, after containing the virus via lockdowns and school closures, was the post-Wuhan plan. “Mitigate/Suppress/Maintain: Local Targets for Victory Over COVID” was the rallying cry of the sixteenth white
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China and Italy indicated that children were not driving transmission.143 Tegnell and his allies advocated a restrained response because they fundamentally viewed containing Covid as impossible. Lockdown measures would not be sustainable over the lengthy and uncertain time period required to develop, test, and administer a vaccine. Given that containment and
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of “misinformation” on their platforms.63 Officials pressed the platforms to remove or “deboost” disfavored content on contentious topics, such as on the efficacy of pandemic lockdowns, Covid vaccines, and the possible lab-leak origin of the pandemic. Officials’ “jawboning” of social media companies at times included “intimidating messages and threats
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many ways in which social media companies, acting at the behest of the federal government, restricted their ability to share their views on pandemic policies, including lockdowns, mask mandates, and Covid vaccine mandates, among others. Among the many items censored or algorithmically de-boosted by social media companies were communications from state actors
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one month.99 Many people are simply unwilling to endure the privations of social distancing for long enough to affect the overall course of the pandemic.100 Lockdowns were not economically sustainable even in rich countries for the many months required to develop and distribute a new vaccine. In the
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grappled with the vast uncertainties surrounding such large-scale, previously untried social interventions imposed on a nationwide and global scale. Estimating Costs before the Pandemic Before the 2020 lockdowns, pandemic planners recognized the enormous costs entailed by mandatory social distancing policies but were uncertain of the benefits. In his best-selling book
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in the academy and elsewhere to seriously consider, or weigh in retrospect, the short-and long-term costs and benefits of the lockdowns, school closures, and other pandemic restrictions. Among the few scholars and researchers undertaking this task, initial assessments are often that the expected costs far outweigh the benefits.40
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troubling, this alignment maps onto the existing political and partisan divide, sowing greater mistrust among all Americans. A cynic might suggest that, as with the Covid lockdown model itself, Western elites adopted a new model of social control in response to the crisis. However one characterizes it, placing unchecked power C o
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): 750–54, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06732. 3. See Katherine Rushton and Daniel Foggo, “Neil Ferguson, the Scientist Who Convinced Boris Johnson of UK Coronavirus Lockdown, Criticised in Past for Flawed Research,” Telegraph (U.K.), March 28, 2020, https://w ww.telegraph.co.uk/news/2 020/03/28/neil-ferguson
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, “In Spain, Children Still Can’t Go Outside,” New York Times, April 16, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/parenting/spain-kids-lockdown-coronavirus.html. 78. Green, Covid Consensus, 3. 79. Gottlieb is very clear on this score. Uncontrolled Spread, 176 and elsewhere. 80. Gottlieb, Uncontrolled Spread, 194–95. 81. Ferguson
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.” See Slavitt, Preventable, 28. 148. Rob Picheta, “Boris Johnson Issues Stay-at-Home Order, Sending UK into Lockdown to Fight Coronavirus Pandemic,” CNN, March 24, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23 /uk/uk-coronavirus-lockdown-gbr-intl/index.html. Luke McGee, “What Took Boris Johnson So Long?,” CNN, March 24, 2020, https://www
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.cnn.com/2020/03/23/uk/uk-coronavirus -lockdown-analysis-gbr-intl/index.html 149. Anderberg, The Herd, 91, emphasis
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, “How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate,” Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins -emails- great- barrington- declaration- covid- pandemic- lockdown-11640129116; and Stephen M. Lapore, “There Needs to Be a Quick and Devastating Take Down,” Daily Mail, December 18, 2021, https://www.dailymail.co.uk
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the need for generalised restrictions.” 27. Francois Murphy, “Austria Powers Down Public Life as Fourth COVID-19 Lockdown Begins,” Reuters, November 22, 2021, https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austria-powers -down-public-life-fourth-covid-19-lockdown-begins-2021-11-21/. 322 not e s to ch a p t er 4 28
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with Christmas Lockdown to Halt Omicron Surge,” Bloomberg, December 20, 2021, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021 -12-20/u-k-debates-christmas-lockdown-amid-omicron-driven-covid-surge. 30. Alwan et al., “Scientific Consensus,” e71. 31. Sunetra Gupta usefully explains how the waxing and waning of herd immunity regulates the
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house, Year the World Went Mad, 102–6. 57. Woolhouse, Year the World Went Mad, 104–8. 58. Simon Johnson, “BBC ‘Misrepresented’ Covid Risk to Boost Lockdown Support, Inquiry Told,” The Telegraph, January 25, 2024, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/25 /covid-inquiry-bbc-misrepresented-risk-pandemic/. 59
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). Regardless, the findings are basically identical. 89. Bollyky et al., “Assessing COVID-19 Pandemic Policies,” figure 3. 90. Dyani Lewis, “What Scientists Have Learnt from COVID Lockdowns,” Nature, September 2022, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02823-4. 91. Lewis, “What Scientists Have Learnt.” 92. See, for example, Jan M. Brauner
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. Stephenson et al., “Inferring the Effectiveness of Government Interventions against COVID-19,” Science 371 (6531, 2021); Vincenzo Alfano and Salvatore Ercolano, “The Efficacy of Lockdown Against COVID-19: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis,” Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 18 (4, 2020): 509–17; Eran Bendavid, Christopher Oh, Jay Bhattacharya, and
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, 2021): 318–31; Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke, “A Literature Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality,” Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, Studies in Applied Economics (200, 2022), https://s ites
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ockdowns -o n -COVID -19 -Mortality.pdf; Trevor Pugh, Jeffrey Harris, Kyle Jarnagin, Matthew S. Thiese, and Kurt T. Hegmann, “Impacts of the Statewide COVID-19 Lockdown Interventions on Excess Mortality, Unemployment, and Employment Growth,” Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 64 (9, 2022): 726–30. 95. Christopher Berry, Anthony Fowler, Tamara
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worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.” See https://collateralglobal.org/about/. 40. See the excellent discussion and sources in Ari R. Joffe, “COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink,” Frontiers in Public Health 9 (February 26, 2021): article 625778, http:// doi.org/ 10.3389/fpubh.2021.625778. 41. The Covid response
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. Corinna Koebnick, Margo A. Sidell, Xia Li, Ken Resnicow, Poornima Kunani, Deborah R. Young, and Susan J. Woolford, “Disparities in Weight Changes during the COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Lockdown in Youths,” Obesity 31 (3, 2023): 789–801. 110. Candi M. C. Leung, Margaret K. Ho, Alina A. Bharwani, Hugo Cogo-Moreira, Yishan Wang
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/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold -we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/. 9. Ari R. Joffe, “COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink,” Frontiers in Public Health 9 (February 2021, art. 625778): 3, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.625778; quoting L. Bonneux and
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, 2021, https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director -general-s-keynote-speech-at-the-138th-international-olympic-committee-session. 12. Joffe, “COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink,” quoting L. Bonneaux and W. Van Damme, “Health Is More than Influenza,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 89 (7, 2011): 539
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Ever,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 10, 2023, https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-need-scientific-dissidents -now-more-than-ever. 16. Joffe, “COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink,” 4. 17. Report by the Rt Hon the Baroness Hallett, DBE, Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, “Module 1 Report: The Resilience
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,” Spiked, August 9, 2024, https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/0 9 /we-still-n eed-to-reckon-with-the-folly-of-lockdown/. 18. Graham Allison, “Coronavirus as a Strategic Challenge: Has Washington Misdiagnosed the Problem?,” Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, April 2020, https://www
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
by Fareed Zakaria · 5 Oct 2020 · 289pp · 86,165 words
. For those with a high school diploma, fewer than 10% ever worked from home—for high-school dropouts, 3%. Not surprisingly, then, when Covid-19 hit and the lockdowns started, it was those who couldn’t work from home who were hurt most. Only 13% of people in households making over $100
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Internet. Others would never think of taking a class online. Most would not have agreed to a doctor’s appointment via video chat. The pandemic and the lockdowns that followed compelled changes in behavior, and not just from people but businesses, too. Hollywood studios would never have dreamed of debuting a big
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, except that unlike gold, which is finite in supply, data mines just keep getting bigger. Covid-19 will make bigger even better. Between the pandemic and the lockdown, large digital companies have become vital and seen business boom. They will continue to flourish as people get more comfortable living a digital life
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path of increasing globalization. The fallback since 2008 is real but small, a blip on the long-term trend. The short-term effect of the pandemic and lockdowns, of course, has been to curtail all economic activity, domestic and international. This reversal will probably grow into a phase of real but modest
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Mozur, “To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China,” New York Times, February 15, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/business/china-coronavirus-lockdown.html. 32 built two new hospitals: Lingling Wei, “China’s Coronavirus Response Toughens State Control and Weakens the Private Market,” Wall Street Journal, March 18
Deadly Quiet City: True Stories From Wuhan
by Murong Xuecun · 7 Mar 2023 · 236pp · 73,008 words
husband holds on to Li’s shoulders while the wife squeezes behind her husband and holds on to his waist. They discuss the coronavirus catastrophe and life under lockdown. About two days later Li receives a phone call. It is the husband. ‘We both tested positive,’ he says. ‘Terribly sorry, driver, you
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: ‘When you march towards your goal, the entire world will make way for you.’ Li cherishes the memory of the days of the lockdown, the time when the pandemic was causing devastation, with millions of people suffering and angry. It was actually his happiest time. ‘Illegal, risky, but quite happy.’ After a
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the city’s poorest people, who risk their lives to get customers. When she talks with them, she comes to understand the difficulties the pandemic and the reckless lockdown inflicts on such people. On 4 or 5 February, she meets a motorcycle taxi driver. His vehicle is broken-down, his clothes are
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Authority. The performance of the WHO will also be investigated. More than 100 million residents of north-east Chinese province Jilin are put into lockdown after outbreaks of COVID-19. On 19 May, the World Health Assembly adopts without opposition a resolution to establish an inquiry into the origins and responses to
Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
by James Ball · 19 Jul 2023 · 317pp · 87,048 words
got ever more into them, but without ever becoming all that political, he says, or it intruding all that much on their life – until the Covid-19 lockdowns began. ‘I think it’s been accelerated by lockdown. Mum has, for a few years now, been quite religiously following these really alternative blogs
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police have good cause to worry on this front, as too have families of medical staff, as QAnon increasingly merged with the globalantivaxx and anti-Covid lockdown movements. Some families have had a level of concern even beyond that – what do you do if the conspiracist you love, or the conspiracist you
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test. The results horrified us’, www.sfgate.com, 21 May 2021. 10. Or people who identified as journalists, at least. 11. ‘The Truth Behind the Coronavirus Pandemic, Covid-19 Lockdown & the Economic Crash – David Icke’, https://freedomplatform.tv, 18 March 2020. 12. This is in fact a paraphrase of ‘Alle Dinge sind Gift, und
Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It
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