"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lying About Lockdowns

Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?" Where to find us: Peter's newsletter Peter's other podcast, 5-4 Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase Sources: Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year” The 2019 WHO report 30‐day mortality following COVID‐19 COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions Policy Interventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the United States What we can learn from Sweden A review of the Swedish policy response to COVID-19 How Sweden approached the COVID‐19 pandemic The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy The Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster Excess mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020 How Sweden approached the COVID-19 pandemic Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions Jonathan Howard’s “We Want Them Infected.” Deaths: Leading Causes for 2021 Stay-at-home orders associate with subsequent decreases in COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the United States Did the Timing of State Mandated Lockdown Affect the Spread of COVID-19? US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

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"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lying About Lockdowns is an episode from If Books Could Kill by Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri.

This episode is 57:47 long.

This episode was published on Jun 17, 2025.

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