== Fighting The First Wave ==
==== Peter Baldwin 2021 382.1962 BAL Beaverton Library ====

 . [[ https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/peter-baldwin | grumpy prof ]], not much new about COVID viewed from mid 2023
  . though I might like his 2023 book [[ https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/14887/9780262373968.pdf | 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" [[ https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2982/rapid-responses | 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