{"id":252,"date":"2020-04-24T06:54:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T05:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/?p=252"},"modified":"2020-04-24T06:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T05:56:06","slug":"virus-reads-from-around-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/2020\/04\/24\/virus-reads-from-around-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus reads from around the web"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Intriguing\nlooks at the Swedish approach to pandemic response from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/04\/can-you-beat-covid-19-without-a-lockdown-sweden-is-trying?\">Vanity\nFair<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-01098-x\">Nature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An argument\nthat the pandemic is revealing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/04\/23\/how-the-acceleration-of-death-precipitated-by-covid-19-exposes-state-crime\/\">varieties\nof \u2018structural violence\u2019<\/a> by government including the UK\u2019s neglect of its\nhealth services under austerity, by two professors at Queen Mary University\nLondon (this is from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">Counterpunch<\/a><\/em>, which has provided\nnumerous valuable commentaries on the politics of the pandemic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/23\/scientists-criticise-uk-government-over-following-the-science\">debunking\nof the idea<\/a> that UK government is \u2018following the science\u2019, pointing out\nthat this claim doesn\u2019t even make sense in the uncertain world of public health\npolicy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a fine,\nplain-language guide to the wonderful world of <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/world-health-organization-what-does-it-spend-its-money-on-136544?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2024%202020%20-%201602815357&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2024%202020%20-%201602815357+CID_f9d7ba1f6f63ff54ae61a40678c81070&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=World%20Health%20Organization%20what%20does%20it%20spend%20its%20money%20on\">World\nHealth Organization decision-making and finance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intriguing looks at the Swedish approach to pandemic response from Vanity Fair and Nature An argument that the pandemic is revealing varieties of \u2018structural violence\u2019 by government including the UK\u2019s neglect of its health services under austerity, by two professors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/2020\/04\/24\/virus-reads-from-around-the-web\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,35,36,38,50,49],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-austerity","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic-planning","tag-structural-violence","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/theodoreschrecker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}