Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe

· Cambridge University Press
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COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic. He shows that how nations responded depended above all on the political tools available - how firmly could the authorities order citizens' lives and how willingly would they be obeyed? In Asia, nations quarantined the infected and their contacts. In the Americas and Europe they shut down their economies, hoping to squelch the virus's spread. Others, above all Sweden, responded with a light touch, putting their faith in social consensus over coercion. Whether citizens would follow their leaders' requests and how soon they would tire of their demands were crucial to hopes of taming the pandemic.

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March 20, 2021
Its an economic problem from the poor choices in our elected officials in a failed attempted to "prevent" the virus. And to say its the biggest public health crisis is a slap in the face to the 600,000+ a year that die in just America alone from heart disease and the 700,000 plus from cancer. And the only and i mean only reason there is so many covid deaths is from poor management of a crisis. Look at new york. It had over 13% of americas total deaths, with more supposedly covered up. If you look at the statistics of death increases per state by the cdc, 5 stand out. New york, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois. The other states barely had increases while some actually saw decreases in deaths per month.
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Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. His previous publications include Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (2005), Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830–1930 (1999), and The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (2014). His latest book, Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History is forthcoming in the fall of 2021.

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