Gigi Foster | Simon Haines | The Great Covid Panic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- In this seventh Ramsay Lecture for 2021, Professor Gigi Foster joins Ramsay Centre CEO, Professor Simon Haines, in discussion on The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next.
The lecture and subsequent discussion delve into questions raised in a recently released book Professor Foster co-authored on the subject.
In this book and her lecture, Professor Foster argues that Australia succumbed to global panic over COVID-19 in 2020, ignoring pandemic management plans, which ‘sensibly did not call for wholesale lockdowns of healthy populations’.
‘There was no cost benefit analysis proving or at least estimating that lockdowns would deliver net benefits in terms of human welfare, in terms of human thriving,’ she says. ‘And at the same time we saw and knew the pain that was going to be created, that already had been created, and that would stay with us for years to come, from the actions we were taking. And that pain was going to be mainly felt by those who were initially already disadvantaged.’
Should COVID-19 have been handled differently? Would we approach it the same way again?
Join us for this important discussion.
Nuremberg 2.0- bring it on!
Amazing....God how to get the media to listen to this!!!!!
Very interesting! So happy to hear someone has provided data to support my gut feeling that the cost benefit of all the panic was not worth it. Thank you Professors et al
only thing I question is believing "government" will be able to organize an open system of thinking and debate. Gigi is wonderful
Well done Gigi! Ties all various themes together. Exposing the monopolies of thought hijacked by rent seekers.
I am watching this video one year later. A recent review of the Covid responses of the Australian governments more or less supports Gigi's thoughts. It would appear that politicians (Dan Andrews) appointing heads of Health dept. unfit for the task was a major factor in our State's poor performance.
As a retired para-medical person of 45 years' experience in infection control, I found the Victorian regulations difficult to understand. I can understand how Russian citizens attitude towards the invasion of Ukraine seem hard to understand, after having experienced the MSM's coverage of Covid basically being government propaganda. It was hard for the population to get a balanced view
Great guests
I like the way this person thinks !
Love you, Gigi 💜
Completely agree with Gigi on covid as confirming the left's "care" for the underprivileged as virtue signalling. Didn't see Julian Burnside's signature on the QC list condemning tyrant Andrew's Bill either.
This Lady is fierce! Intellect of the highest order!! No mincing words here!! Wow!
She’s a professor of economics? I'll give you my viewpoint as to why you should not listen to this economist. “Get off your couch and do something. Government can’t do anything.” She also gleefully said that this is an amazing time to be an economist, and then the 60 minute Australian interviewer pushed back on her statement and told her what about all the suffering and she backtracked on her statement which has done massive damage to the middle class with huge income inequality.
We were watching her on TV and once she made these statements, even my friend said she’s an idiot. Conservative economist like this lady push austerity and they look at the national debt just like household debt, which is nonsense because a household is not have its own currency.
They also use the national debt as a scare tactic to promote the idea that the nation is broke this intern causes the promotion of austerity which is to cut government social programs and infrastructure spending that benefit the poor, middle class and the upper middle class.
If you think that having an economics degree is just like having a dental degree where dentists have a general consensus on how to fix teeth you’re wrong. There are two dominant economists out there conservative and progressive economists. Conservative economist like this lady are the ones who have been promoting Supply so trickle down economics for the last 45 years and pushing austerity policies
Right wing/conservative economist like this lady have completely different viewpoints on how to run an economies as compared progressive demand side left leaning economists.
If you want to see which countries have the best economic outcomes I suggest you do a comparison. In fact, one of the best comparisons is to compare Republican states to democratic states in terms of life expectancy, pollution, crime, incarceration rates, poverty rates, addiction, inequality, etc.
Google or TH-cam the definition of conservative Neoliberal political economic policies over the last 45 years and what they’ve done to the world. Conservative politicians promote these kinds of economists.
Oh and like most conservatives she's part of the anti-vax movement because that's evil big government. God help us.