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Putting the ‘Panic!’ into pandemic

Ill-informed bureaucrats have given us bad policy

12 December 2020

9:00 AM

12 December 2020

9:00 AM

Remember the brilliant Clive Dunn as Lance-Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army? His default response to a crisis was to shout ‘Don’t panic! Don’t panic!’ as he ran around in a blind panic. That’s been the story of the typical response to the coronavirus pandemic across the Western world with little evidence of balance, proportionality and risk-management.

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