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Epidemic of illogicality

Epidemic of illogicality

Culture and behaviour are key to containing the virus

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Melanie Phillips
Sep 08, 2020
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One of the many regrettable consequences of the Covid-19 crisis has been an epidemic of illogicality. Thus:

  • Countries which originally locked down have rising infection rates. Therefore lockdown was useless and the economic damage it caused was entirely unnecessary.

  • Sweden never locked down and now its infection rate is negligible. Therefore we should all…

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