The Making of a Pandemic

RT @jehrenreich: @wsbgnl This needs a new (or augmented) narrative. 1. The loss of trust is, in part, due to CDC, etc screwups. 2. The loss…

@wsbgnl This needs a new (or augmented) narrative. 1. The loss of trust is, in part, due to CDC, etc screwups. 2. The loss of trust is even more due to the systematic undermining of Covid mitigation by the right. 3. For years, public health has gone astra

@gregggonsalves The taming of public health is part of a larger story, that of the rise of the professional managerial class, with its ambivalent attitude towards poor and working people. I tell it in The Making of a Pop andemic. https://t.co/Y8HtlT1J2g

@ENirenberg It's a longer argument than is easily doable by Twitter. I've made the argument at length in a chapter of my book The Making of a Pandemic: Social, Political, and Psychological Perspective on Covid 19. The chapter is here. https://t.co/Y8HtlT1