I've been saying the same thing as that swedish guy for the last few years, the changes in messaging did an absolutely enormous amount of damage to the public's confidence in central authorities. Of course I believe it was the right idea to change direction on the mask guidelines and that the CDC should've recommended masking from the very beginning and that eventually recommending was the better choice regardless, still it is very funny to hear something (similar) to what i've been saying for a long time from someone I absolutely disagree with.

This interview is the first in the Pitt REEES Spring Series "Openness, Acceleration, Restructuring: The Soviet 1980s." See the full schedule: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/spring-series-2022

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Tom Junes is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from the KU Leuven (Belgium) and as a postdoctoral researcher he has held fellowships in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Germany, Bulgaria, and Italy. He’s the author of Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2015.

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We answer the question on the tip of everyone's tongue: how, exactly, does the pandemic end?

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Death Panel Episode 328 How It Doesn't End (03/17/22)

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Many point to Sweden as evidence that lockdowns and school closures were unnecessary and harmful. But what actually happened in Sweden? David Steadson joins us to talk about Sweden's herd immunity strategy, government documents that show what really happened there in 2020, and the lasting population effects of long covid.

David Steadson is a co-author of the paper "Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden," published by Nature’s Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications in March. You can read the full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01097-5

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What Happened In Sweden w/ David Steadson (04/06/22)

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We tell the story of Section 504, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for disabled people in the U.S., and how it very nearly didn't happen because of concerns that passing it would be "too expensive."

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Death Panel Episode 335 A Death Panel History of 504, Part One (04/14/22)

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We discuss the one thing everyone can seemingly agree on: the US is in a new wave, and no one knows quite how big it really is. Then we revisit the CDC's "community level" metrics, and discuss new reports that the White House is preparing to have to ration vaccines.

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Death Panel Episode 344 An Invisible Wave (05/19/22)

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For decades, a quiet armored truck driver living in Brooklyn ran thousands of guns to the IRA. He was born in Ireland and dedicated to the Republican cause. He was also a committed socialist, who believed the anti-imperial struggle in Ireland was connected to the struggle of African-Americans, Cubans and Vietnamese. When he wasn’t handing out flyers or walking the picket lines, he was running an international arms network which took weapons pilfered from US military bases and smuggled them to IRA volunteers. 

But at the height of his success, a federal investigation forced him into the limelight. In the ensuing trial, Irish Republicans made him into a hero, but a question always lingered about his gun running: was the CIA in on it?

Further reading: 
The American Connection by Jack Holland
Irish America and the Ulster Conflict by Andrew Wilson
The Trial of the IRA Five by Thomas Fox
Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994 by Robert Collins
“The Patriot Game” by Shana Alexander in New York Magazine

The interview with George Harrison was recorded by Matthew Siegfried in 2004. The interviews with Chuck Laverty and Michael Flannery are courtesy of the Tamiment Library at New York University.

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Abby Cartus joins us to discuss David Leonhardt's "Covid and Race," in which he made the bold (and inaccurate) claim in the New York Times that "covid’s racial gaps have narrowed and, more recently, even flipped." But first, we discuss a report that the Biden administration privately discussed what an acceptable number of ongoing daily covid deaths would be.

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Death Panel Episode 350 David Leonhardt and the Tolerable Plague w/ Abby Cartus (06/16/22)

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