Proponents of the virtues of lockdowns seem to be stuck in a perpetual doom loop, unable to wean themselves off their comfort blanket of draconian restrictions, regardless of whether or not these are useful in controlling the spread of respiratory disease such as Covid-19. Lockdowns are also ethically questionable: merely a tedious inconvenience to the ‘healthy wealthy’, they place a heavy – in some cases irreversible – burden on the poor, the young, the vulnerable and the old.
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Of Asymmetric Risk and the Ethics of Coercion
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Proponents of the virtues of lockdowns seem to be stuck in a perpetual doom loop, unable to wean themselves off their comfort blanket of draconian restrictions, regardless of whether or not these are useful in controlling the spread of respiratory disease such as Covid-19. Lockdowns are also ethically questionable: merely a tedious inconvenience to the ‘healthy wealthy’, they place a heavy – in some cases irreversible – burden on the poor, the young, the vulnerable and the old.