
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lying About Lockdowns
from If Books Could Kill
by Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
Published: Tue Jun 17 2025
Show Notes
Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?"
Where to find us:
Sources:
- Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year”
- The2019WHO report
- 30‐daymortality following COVID‐19
- COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions
- PolicyInterventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the United States
- Whatwe can learn from Sweden
- Areview of the Swedish policy response to COVID-19
- HowSweden approached the COVID‐19 pandemic
- Thefirst eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy
- The Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster
- Excessmortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020
HowSweden approached the COVID-19 pandemic - Comparisonsof all-cause mortality between European countries and regions
- JonathanHoward’s “We Want Them Infected.”
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2021
Stay-at-homeorders associate with subsequent decreases in COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the United States - Didthe Timing of State Mandated Lockdown Affect the Spread of COVID-19?
- USState Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!