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The Covid Consensus :The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left

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The Covid Consensus :The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left

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During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that 'following the science' with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But social science reveals the true human cost of this policy. The Covid Consensus provides an internationalist-left perspective on the world's Covid-19 response, which has had devastating consequences for democratic rights and the poor worldwide. As the fortunes of the richest soared, nationwide shutdowns devastated small businesses, the working classes and the Global South's informal economies. Gender-based violence surged, and the mental health of young people was severely compromised. Meanwhile, unprecedented health restrictions prevented participation in daily life without proof of vaccination. Toby Green and Thomas Fazi argue that these policies grossly exacerbated existing trends of inequality, mediatisation and surveillance, with grave implications for the future. Rich in human detail, The Covid Consensus tackles head-on the refusal of the global political class and mainstream media to report the true extent of the erosion of democratic processes and the socioeconomic assault on the poor. As the world emerges from the pandemic to confront new modes of monitoring and control, this left-wing reappraisal of global Covid policies exposes the injustices and political failings that have produced the biggest crisis since the Second World War.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781787388413
ISBN10 1787388417
Number Of Pages 496
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format paperback
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‘[The Covid Consensus] is the best hope yet of an antidote to the Covid lobotomy, performing the near impossible task of detailing … the great horrors that government lockdowns have brought to bear on populations in the Global North and South, without once betraying the kind of outrage that causes those who believe in the Covid narrative to close their ears and shut their eyes, both to fact and to feeling.’

-- Lockdown Sceptics

'[The Covid Consensus] brilliantly picks apart the underlying incongruities which allowed Covid-19 to upend democratic, scientific and international norms. From the loss of thousand-year-old traditions to the effective re-colonisation of sub-Saharan Africa, these changes should concern us all.'

-- David Bell, independent consultant, and former medical officer, World Health Organization

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Author's Bio

Toby Green is Professor of African History at King’s College London, and author of A Fistful of Shells. Thomas Fazi is the author and co-author of several books on economic and political issues, including Reclaiming the State. Their article for UnHerd, ‘The Left’s Covid Failure’, was translated into ten languages.

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