Fighting The First Wave
Peter Baldwin 2021 382.1962 BAL Beaverton Library
grumpy prof, not much new about COVID viewed from mid 2023
though I might like his 2023 book Athena Unbound, Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All
p26 off-piste (= away from prepared ski runs), UK metaphor "to do something different than what is normal or expected"
- p61 Swedish claim constitutionally prevented from lockdown red herring
- p67 Trump and Bolsonaro "prioritizing hardpressed social groups" also rejected science
p69 "Behavioral fatigue" not true
- p78 Sweden: More people live alone than in any other country. "Swedes were, in effect, self-isolating long before the epidemic. As the joke had it, their success in beating the pandemic was due to Swedes abandoning the six-foot distancing rule and returning to their usual fifteen feet apart."
- p92 US stimulus, unemployment skyrocketed in April, poverty declined, household incomes up 12%
p97 amour propre a sense of one's own worth; self-respect
- p120 stopped reading about here, back to the library it goes