Witnessing the Media’s Covid Coverage from the Inside
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Covid media, like so much else in modern life, has become hopelessly fractured: the tall, left-facing trees dominate the landscape, telling the story of a deadl... Read more.
It’s Not Really About the Data
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To prevent a repeat of the Covid debacle, we need to draw on principles that transcend the contours of a particular virus, like the above-mentioned freedom of a... Read more.
Opposition from Left Journalism
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Within days of the pandemic’s inception, criticism of lockdowns and other restrictions became conflated with right-wing politics. This put lefties in a bind: ... Read more.
Bonfire of the Covid Vanities
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Freedom to take a walk on the beach? Stop killing the vulnerable! Freedom to earn a living? The economy will recover! The demotion of freedom—that noble ideal... Read more.
Danger, Caution Ahead: Zeb Jamrozik and Mark Changizi
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The precautionary principle uses the worst-case scenario, rather than the most probable scenario, as a basis for creating policies. And as we’ve seen with Cov... Read more.
Focused Protection: Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff
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In the early months of the pandemic, scientists concerned about lockdowns feared “coming out” in public. The GBD partners took one for the B team and did th... Read more.
The Madness of Crowds
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As Desmet explains in the book, every totalitarian regime begins with a period of mass formation. Into this tense and volatile mass steps an autocratic governme... Read more.
It All Began with Fear
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When Covid-19 came along, Laura Dodsworth grew alarmed—not at the virus, but at the fear swirling around it. She watched the fear grow legs and wings and wrap... Read more.
Blindsight Is 2020
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Epidemiologists can do epidemiology. Public health experts can do public health. But none of these experts can do society or human nature any better than intell... Read more.
How Two Conflicting Covid Stories Shattered Society
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The two stories continued to unfold in tandem, the gulf between them widening with each passing month. Beneath all the arguments about the science lay a fundame... Read more.
Follow the Science, Reconsidered
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Science is like a weathervane: it gives you information, which you can use to decide on a course of action, but it doesn’t tell you what to do. The decision b... Read more.
Hey Covid, I’ve Got Religion
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In the early months, while secular folks were exhorting everyone to stay home, stay safe, mask up, and all the rest, religious leaders began pushing back agains... Read more.