Generals, Winston Churchill said, are always prepared to fight the last war. Their early experiences of combat, their intellectual training, the received wisdom interpreting the most recent conflicts – all shape how they read the battlefield. These decisions and the interests of the institutions, which were built during the last war – the war machine,ContinueContinue reading “Cease the endless war against the virus”
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From here to immunity: charting COVID from pandemic to endemic
2020 has proven a testing year for the culture and capacity of governments around the world. Many governments have failed. Governments far away and close to home have failed. The State of Victoria in Australia, where I call home, has failed more in proportion to the real spread of the virus among its resident populationContinueContinue reading “From here to immunity: charting COVID from pandemic to endemic”