Unmasked : The Politics of Pandemics
by
Bill Bowtell
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
In The National Interest
ISBN-10
1922464244
ISBN-13
9781922464248
Publisher
Monash University Publishing
Imprint
Monash University Publishing
Country of Manufacture
AU
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 2021
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
80 grams
Dimensions
11.20 x 17.60 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Politics & government
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Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering to millions more. In 2020, COVID-19 emerged into a world where many governments had failed to heed the lessons of the past, and so they were unprepared and unable to stop its global spread. But some countries had learned the harsh lessons of HIV/AIDS, and had contained SARS1, Ebola, Zika and MERS. When coronavirus hit, they knew what to do to save their people from avoidable infections and deaths. In Unmasked: the Politics of Pandemics, Bill Bowtell draws on his four decades of experience in the global and local politics of public health to examine why some countries got it right with coronavirus while others collapsed into misery and chaos. He looks closely at the critical weeks when poor planning brought Australia to the brink of disaster, until the Australian people forced their governments to put public health before politics. Unmasked reveals how and why our politicians failed us during the greatest public health crisis of this century to date. (209 words)
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