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Exploring the legacy of COVID pandemic panic

The following is an excerpt from Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to COVID-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever, one of the five books shortlisted for this year's $60,000 Donner Prize.

Pandemic Panic will be very relevant to policymakers in that it provides a critical analysis of past actions and their implications, offering lessons that can inform future crisis response and policy development, writes the Donner Prize Foundation.Book cover image courtesy of Optimum Publishing International

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BY JOANNA BARON, CHRISTINE VAN GEYN

April 24, 2024

In October 2022, economist Emily Oster wrote a plea for a “pandemic amnesty.” After detailing various ill-conceived public health policies cobbled together throughout the pandemic, Oster concluded that “The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to...

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