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"In Covid's Wake": Lying About Lockdowns

2025/6/17
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The podcast opens with a discussion about personal anecdotes, then dives into the book "In COVID's Wake," criticizing its reactionary stance and the spread of COVID revisionism. It questions whether pandemic measures were excessive, especially considering the high death toll, and sets the stage for a chronological examination of the pandemic.
  • America's COVID-19 death rate is among the highest globally.
  • The book "In COVID's Wake" promotes a narrative of excessive pandemic measures.
  • The podcast aims to analyze the pandemic chronologically, focusing on the science and politics of the response.

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Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?"

**Where to find us: **

  • Peter's newsletter)
  • Peter's other podcast, 5-4)
  • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase)

Sources:

  • Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year”)
  • The 2019 WHO report)                
  • 30‐day mortality following COVID‐19)
  • COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions)
  • Policy Interventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the United States)
  • What we can learn from Sweden)
  • A review of the Swedish policy response to COVID-19)
  • How Sweden approached the COVID‐19 pandemic)
  • The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy)
  • The Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster)
  • Excess mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic )
  • Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020)
  • How Sweden approached the COVID-19 pandemic)
  • Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions)
  • Jonathan Howard’s “We Want Them Infected.”)
  • Deaths: Leading Causes for 2021)
  • Stay-at-home orders associate with subsequent decreases in COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the United States) 
  • Did the Timing of State Mandated Lockdown Affect the Spread of COVID-19? )
  • US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths)

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