Covid Clemency
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Amnesty Is Not an Option
Michael Wolraich: Emily Oster is an economist at Brown University. She recently wrote a piece in The Atlantic that I wanted to talk to her about. Let's declare a pandemic amnesty, he says; let's focus on the future and fix the problems we still need to solve. Wolsch: As someone who made her opinions known, she got hate mail, probably some death threats literally called a genocider. In this position, very vitriolic enemies are an indication thatEmily Oster might be onto something for further indications.Wolraich: Is there some other motivation or emotion at work?
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