Book description
How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives-and our democracy
COVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVID-19, shedding new lightā¦
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1 author picked Pandemic Politics as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Sure, people objected to pandemic mitigation measures in other countries. Only in the United States were objections partisan.
This book elegantly relies on public opinion surveys to demonstrate the costs of partisanship in the pandemic. The authors discuss the economy, immigration, and voting. They document the Trump administrationās efforts to make mitigating the pandemic partisan. Masks are not inherently partisan. Our friends in medicine wear them all the time. In parts of Asia, many have used them to limit virusesā spread.
Even before the pandemic, in the United States, partisanship had become at least as much about personal identity asā¦
From Susan's list on governing disasters in a changing climate.
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