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"An examination of the ways in which Covid policies, and the scientific debate which surrounded it, were politicized. In response to the Covid pandemic, public and private resources were expended on a vast scale-truly the equivalent of wartime. 2020 saw the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history: people around the world were confined to their homes, not allowed to attend religious services, see family living outside their households, or even take extended solitary walks outdoors. A few weeks after the first society-wide lockdowns in China and Italy, 3.9 billion people were living under some form of quarantine-half the world's population. In the aftermath of the pandemic, political theorist Stephen Macedo and political scientist Frances Lee argue in this book that there is an urgent need to ask hard questions about the effectiveness and impact of these policies, especially as new studies about them emerge. Was it worth it? Did we do the right thing? Did we debate and deliberate adequately? Did scientists, public health officials, and others sometimes mislead the public or "economize" on the truth in presenting "the science"? Insofar as complexities were simplifie

Author

Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691267135