Learning from the Swedish Covid 'experiment'

In our latest CG Podcast Kevin Bardosh sits down with journalist Johan Anderberg to discuss his latest book, The Herd: How Sweden Chose Its Own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years

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The pandemic experience in Ireland

“I was shocked – the lack of critical thinking in the country was really striking. Everybody (who had dissenting voices) became a bit despondent about the capacity of people to ‘reason’ around what was happening, but I thought it was

The Covid legacy in Australia

“What we would like to see is the reinvigoration of the democratic relationship between citizen and society so that states, instead of having that arm’s length relationship between themselves and society built up over several decades actually

Afro-descendant populations in Cartagena (Colombia) and the Covid-19 crisis – Airlin Perez Carrascal

“We started to put into the debate the narrative about who the people were who were not dying because of Covid-19 but were dying because they couldn’t get access to food.”

“The

The state of the Canadian media during and after the Covid-19 pandemic

“In 2020 Dr Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada at the time said that if you are a single person and dating and planning to have intercourse, you should wear a mask while you have intercourse.”

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The Covid legacy in Australia

“Even the basic plan the Government had in place before the pandemic would have been preferrable to what happened in practice.”

“Those plans were junked even before the pandemic started.”

“The original plan would not have involved lockdowns or

The Covid legacy in Australia

“As a society we took it (the country’s Covid-19 policy) to say that ‘we’ve done something quite fantastic and then proceeded to do very little to do things better so that we could avoid doing the same things again.”

'Then the pandemic ended up

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The Covid legacy in Australia

Kevin Bardosh sits down with Prof. Shahar Hameiri, a political scientist from the University of Queensland, to discuss his latest book, The Locked-up Country: Learning the lessons from Australia’s Covid-19 response. Published in 2023, the book

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The lockdown experience in Italy

Kevin Bardosh sits down with Piero Stanig🌳 , Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University in Italy, to discuss his book, Lockdown Failure (Fallimento Lockdown). They explore the government response in Italy, the legacy of lockdown, and what

The state of the Canadian media during and after the Covid-19 pandemic

“In the States right now, there is a small reckoning with some of these big stories – you have the The New York Times coming out and saying the school closures were not effective in controlling the spread of Covid and

The lockdown experience in Italy

@kevinbadosh sits down with Piero Stanig, Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University in Italy, to discuss his book, Lockdown Failure (Fallimento Lockdown). They explore the government response in Italy, the legacy of lockdown, and what

The pandemic experience in Ireland – Where is Ireland at in terms of an enquiry or evaluation?

“I think people are just brushing it under the carpet. There’s no will to look back on what happened, because it’s just embarrassing for the country as far as I’m concerned.”

“The

Afro-descendant populations in Cartagena (Colombia) and the Covid-19 crisis – Airlin Perez Carrascal

“In 2022, Cartagena de Indias had the highest level of monetary poverty - 40.4% of the population, equivalent to 421 thousand people from Cartagena unable to access food,

Dissenting voices

The state of the Canadian media during and after the Covid-19 pandemic

“You could go online in 5 minutes and find very credible dissenting voices, but they weren’t cracking the mainstream and I guess the question is why not?”

“If we’re really representing

The pandemic experience in Ireland

“The European policy was obviously to lockdown and impose vaccine mandates. We followed the script to the letter – we were going to be the best Europeans in the class and impress everybody.”

“Any pub you wanted to go into they demanded a