COVID-19

The Insufferable Smugness of Working from Home
Business and Management INK
May 17, 2021

The Insufferable Smugness of Working from Home

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Fear of Listening to Patients: Short-sighted on Long Covid
Insights
April 6, 2021

Fear of Listening to Patients: Short-sighted on Long Covid

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SSRC Report Tackles COVID-Driven Growing Data Economy
International Debate
March 15, 2021

SSRC Report Tackles COVID-Driven Growing Data Economy

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Vaccine Passports, Governments, and Adult Movies
Public Policy
March 15, 2021

Vaccine Passports, Governments, and Adult Movies

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Opinion: We Must Resist the Powerful Voices Arguing for Zero COVID

Opinion: We Must Resist the Powerful Voices Arguing for Zero COVID

Do we treat the coronavirus as an ordinary risk of life, much as we do with the other 30 respiratory viruses that have infected humans throughout history? Or do we try to eliminate the virus from the UK altogether – the so-called Zero COVID approach?

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No One Can Ensure Total Safety… We Must Fight Pandemic of FEAR

No One Can Ensure Total Safety… We Must Fight Pandemic of FEAR

With this pandemic, argues Robert Dingwall, fear amplification has been policy, based on the advice of a particular group of behavioral scientists advising the United Kingdom’s government.

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Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu

Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu

The reports from Britain’s hospitals in the last few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality of what […]

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Trying to Lock Down Until COVID is Eradicated Would Be Dangerous Folly

Trying to Lock Down Until COVID is Eradicated Would Be Dangerous Folly

It is possible that we could abolish death by COVID, argues Robert Dingwall, by continuing the restrictions of 2020 indefinitely – the problem, of course, is that we would simply die from something else.

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Together Apart

Together Apart

Table of Contents Author Biographies Contributors Acknowledgements Section A: Setting the scene The need for a social identity analysis of COVID-19 A […]

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COVID, Simmel and the Future of Cities

COVID, Simmel and the Future of Cities

Robert Dingwall summons the writings of Georg Simmel to present ‘crucial arguments against the break-up of urban life that is envisioned by some contemporary Utopians: the case against the 15-minute city needs to be heard.’

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Medical Imperialism and the Fate of Christmas

Medical Imperialism and the Fate of Christmas

What happens, asks Robert Dingwall, when governments attempt to impose a moral code on the everyday lives of citizens without the consent of those citizens?

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We Must Learn to Live With the Virus – Just Like Samuel Pepys Lived With the Great Plague

We Must Learn to Live With the Virus – Just Like Samuel Pepys Lived With the Great Plague

Humanity has a long history of dealing with things like pandemics. What history shows us is that the only practicable interventions are social and behavioral. How can we slow the movement of the new infection through the population while medical science catches up with treatments or vaccines?

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