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  • Chapter 4 - Whose Lives? What Values? Herd Immunity, Lockdowns and Social/Physical Distancing

  • Eivind Engebretsen, Universitetet i Oslo, Mona Baker, Universitetet i Oslo
  • Book:
    Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics
    Published online:
    15 September 2022
    Print publication:
    22 September 2022, pp 45-60
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    This chapter examines disagreements about mass public health measures such as lockdowns and physical distancing, which have dominated discussions around Covid-19. Policy-oriented discourses such as recommendations and media briefings have argued for more or less severe measures, ranging from national curfews to mandated physical distancing, or mitigation strategies built on the premise of quickly reaching herd immunity. All these different measures have been extensively debated in the media and other public forums and continuously monitored by international organizations such as the World Health Organization. Policy arguments have also been revised or refocused in tandem with a growing body of research and natural experiments as countries began to introduce either mandatory or voluntary policies. This chapter examines various arguments deployed in this debate and the complex dialogue between political, scientific and popular values and discourses.