Book contents
- Fighting the First Wave
- Also by Peter Baldwin
- Fighting the First Wave
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: One Threat, Many Responses
- Chapter 1 Science, Politics, and History
- Chapter 2 New Dogs, Old Tricks
- Chapter 3 The Politics of Prevention
- Chapter 4 What Was Done?
- Chapter 5 Why the Preventive Playing Field Was Not Level
- Chapter 6 Where and Why Science Mattered
- Chapter 7 From State to Citizen
- Chapter 8 Who Is Responsible for Our Health?
- Chapter 9 Difficult Decisions in Hard Times
- Conclusion: Public Health and Public Goods
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Conclusion: Public Health and Public Goods
The State in a Post-pandemic World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2021
- Fighting the First Wave
- Also by Peter Baldwin
- Fighting the First Wave
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: One Threat, Many Responses
- Chapter 1 Science, Politics, and History
- Chapter 2 New Dogs, Old Tricks
- Chapter 3 The Politics of Prevention
- Chapter 4 What Was Done?
- Chapter 5 Why the Preventive Playing Field Was Not Level
- Chapter 6 Where and Why Science Mattered
- Chapter 7 From State to Citizen
- Chapter 8 Who Is Responsible for Our Health?
- Chapter 9 Difficult Decisions in Hard Times
- Conclusion: Public Health and Public Goods
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Effects that the pandemic will have can scarcely be predicted yet. Many will doubtless pass once the disease has been tamed. Others are likely to become permanent. It seems unlikely that air travel will remain entirely as it was before. Or that work will not have been affected. Will cities recover? Many of the pandemic’s effects will probably be ambiguous. The environment will be helped by the decline of travel but hurt by the shift of travel to private means from public. Deficit financing by governments will have been increased, perhaps permanently. Our toleration of statutory intervention may have increased; indeed, many are disappointed by its lacks, while others decry its excesses. Zoonotic diseases will finally have become recognized as a serious threat to humanity.
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- Fighting the First WaveWhy the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe, pp. 259 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021