The Evolution of the COVID Consensus

The COVID consensus, the title, you know, I leads to this central kind of organizing concept that what happened in 2020 was the very rapid coalescence of a rigid set of dogmas. And it seems like what we've been describing is the way that sort of institutional structures and relationships as well as political dynamics were instrumental in making this one size fits all policy take shape. But there are people working in the development sector who are right, who are doing some quite head of high level briefings about the policy - but they're having to do that without really exploring.