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S5 Ep39: The political economy of lockdown

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What Is Relativity in the Pandemic?

Ogan: Governments and citizens are both more likely to be responsive if the media is free. The presence of free media will make citizens more aware of how dangerous the virus is, which wold then make them more compliant with measures that the government will take. And then in turn, the government will then be more likely to take a lock down measures, knowing that citizens will be morelikely to comply with them. Ogan: There's a kind of mutual interaction between what government is doing and what citizens are doing.

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