State of Mankind

COVID Policy Much Deadlier Than COVID

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American Thought Leaders
JAN JEKIELEK

“We are living through huge food price increases … And in a way, that’s on us.”
Much of the world has spent the last two years modeling how different policies will reduce COVID-19 cases or deaths—with little to no regard to how they damage humanity. Today, I sit down with a man whose job is to actually quantify these harms.
Paul Frijters is a visiting professor of wellbeing economics at the London School of Economics, a social philosopher, and co-author of “The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What to Do Next.”
“There’s kind of a madness that’s crept into the population looking for other crazy things to do … We are as it were in a madly stampeding herd,” Frijters says.