Category: Public Policy

To start with, when any given government is forced to confront an outbreak of any kind of disease, there are three and only three broad policy approaches to choose from: Ignore the epidemic. That is to say, adopt no special policies or additional public health measures to address this specific outbreak. Respond in force. This […]

Given that the COVID-19 pandemic is still upon us, now more than three years after it first appeared, with well over a million already dead and hundreds more dying every day in the US alone, it seems appropriate to devote at least the first few posts of my revitalised blog to the topic. Before turning […]