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Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Politics of Lockdowns
I'm not like naturally predisposed to lockdowns. The time I sort of felt like they weren't necessary if done correctly. It's obviously time that they're incrementally lifted, which is what is happening. We might even be able to keep going ahead with just lots of general mask wearing and maintaining the ban on large events. As you said, but one of the things that struck me was how quickly politicized the issue became. People who, for ideological reasons, were naturally anti-lockdown, kind of disliked the proposed solution. So then the tactic was to try and minimize or gloss over the problem of COVID-19 itself. You know, herd immunity can work.
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