Aufhebunga Bunga
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/148/ Three Articles (September)
🕑 Added 2020-09-22 06:00:04 +0000 UTCOn Brexit negotiations and state aid; on pandemic policies and confirmation bias; and on Beethoven and access to high culture.
Readings:
- Of moonshots and bus subsidies: How state aid became a Brexit deal-breaker, The Economist (attached in patreon)
- Sweden’s Covid-19 experiment holds a worldwide warning, Wolfgang Münchau, FT (attached in patreon)
- Why are we racialising Beethoven, Ralph Leonard, Unherd
Additional referenced pieces:
- Anders Tegnell and the Swedish Covid experiment, FT
- We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole, Katherine Yik & Martin Kulldorff, Jacobin
Comments
Aufhebunga Bunga
yeah we all love Costanza
kd
man, i love george lol
AM
First time/long time. I'm an infectious diseases doctor from sunny Melbourne. This was a very frustrating episode to listen to! Your engagement with the politics of COVID responses is undermined by scientific illiteracy and it's such a waste of important critique. The is overwhelming evidence that COVID causes excess death - older, poorer people with co-morbidities are more at risk. Young, healthy people die too. Vague references to ‘pre-existing health problems’ (do these deaths matter less?) or claims of falsified death rates is ignorant, but more than that it’s unnecessary. The response to a pandemic is essentially social and political, as you rightly say, why muddy that with easily falsifiable claims that seem to aim to minimise the impact of the disease? There is no need, and these are not the terms of the argument you’re making.
