#20 - COVID zero is dead 

I don't lament the passing of the zero COVID myth 

I go through some great articles that helped slay the dragon: 

1. My oped in the AFR - https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/swallow-hard-reality-pill-on-virus-deaths-20210804-p58fxc

2. Gary Banks's oped in the AFR - https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/good-policy-process-a-casualty-of-the-war-on-covid-19-20210823-p58l8h?fbclid=IwAR0Jkh_1bWSsNQb_lF5Q1J0V8tyV4b2JSs5qjQkrSR0-1k4Ii7ygH2TswxY

3. Glenn Greenwald on the lack of cost-benefit analysis - https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-bizarre-refusal-to-apply-cost

4. CS Lewis's paper on the dangers of technocracy - http://liberty-tree.ca/research/willing_slaves_of_the_welfare_state

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Review of the week - all things COVID

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