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87. The Great Covid Panic with Paul Frijters

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Why We Shouldn't Lock Down, Is It?

He's very much one of these scientists who is close to government, and of course, has a history of exaggerating what a new disease will do. He found himself close to the uk. Government at the start of the pandemic; gave advice that was based on 50 years of imunology studies. But when it became clear that politically, they were going to be locked down, anyway, he could have produced a novel argument for why we should flatten the curve in two weeks. And after 18 months, here we are. The curve's not flat yet, is it? It sort of doesn't make the cost benefit analysis as to, well, how much benefit is it

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