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The politicization of covid started early, with the "noble lie" that masks wouldn't prevent the spread of the disease, a lie told in a bid to prevent panic-shoppers buying up all the N95s that health workers needed.
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Safety talk is often a pretext: sometimes paternalistic, sometimes authoritarian and sometimes (ironically) anti-regulatory.
The British "health and safety gone mad" panic of the 1990s is a perfect microcosm of how this works. 3/
The British "health and safety gone mad" panic of the 1990s is a perfect microcosm of how this works. 3/
