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Fighting the First Wave - Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe (Hardcover)
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Fighting the First Wave - Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe (Hardcover)
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COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our
time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries
have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much
better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this
definitive account of the global politics of pandemic. He shows
that how nations responded depended above all on the political
tools available - how firmly could the authorities order citizens'
lives and how willingly would they be obeyed? In Asia, nations
quarantined the infected and their contacts. In the Americas and
Europe they shut down their economies, hoping to squelch the
virus's spread. Others, above all Sweden, responded with a light
touch, putting their faith in social consensus over coercion.
Whether citizens would follow their leaders' requests and how soon
they would tire of their demands were crucial to hopes of taming
the pandemic.
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