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Was Ebola a near-miss?
"the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life"
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Lessons From The Crisis
June 2021
May 2021
It’s bizarre that this needs saying, but *of course* the UK had a Herd Immunity plan
What it was, where it came from, and how it was abandoned
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Lessons From The Crisis
The "noble lie" on masks probably wasn't a lie
Why Western public health went all-in on a campaign against masks.
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Lessons From The Crisis
The transatlantic institutional anti-mask campaign, summarised
Early in 2020 as the pandemic began to surge around the world, Asia and the West were divided on whether people should wear facemasks to try and…
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Lessons From The Crisis
The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive
Early in 2020 Western governments, alarmed by reports from China, asked the international public health community whether they should close borders to…
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Lessons From The Crisis
April 2021
Things can get really bad, really fast, way faster than regular people will notice
Most people don’t pay that much attention to the news Most people who do read news get their info from journalists focused on a narrow range of topics…
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Lessons From The Crisis
January 2021
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