@princetonupress.bsky.social should be ashamed of the revisionist nonsense they published. @joho.bsky.social takes a look at In Covid’s Wake by Lee and Macedo. - ThreadSky

gregggonsalves.bsky.social • 68 days ago

@princetonupress.bsky.social should be ashamed of the revisionist nonsense they published. @joho.bsky.social takes a look at In Covid’s Wake by Lee and Macedo.

Reposted from Jonathan Howard

Laptop class professors wrote a revisionist history of the pandemic to glorify the laptop class.

My review of In COVID’s Wake, a horrible new book praising misinformation advocates of herd immunity via mass infection.

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troytassier.bsky.social•68 days ago

In my view this is really the key: “Macedo and Lee did not explain why the working-class people I saw die would have been better off if only more lawyers and bankers had died next to them.” These authors and the GBD folks somehow believe that we wouldn’t have lost more lives en masse w/out … 1/2

troytassier.bsky.social•68 days ago

… protections in place. And the reality is that a disproportionate number of those extra deaths would have been the working class folks they try to champion. It’s either dishonest or incredibly shallow.

dj1au.bsky.social•64 days ago

The US had more deaths than just about anyone, they don't think they could have done a lot better?

lizdylan.bsky.social•68 days ago

If you go to @princetonupress.bsky.social the book is not being promoted on their BlueSky feed. Wonder why.

gregggonsalves.bsky.social•68 days ago

And as @adamjkucharski.bsky.social notes, the authors brag about refraining from talking to anyone in the field so they could, wait for it, do their own research. Arrogant and foolish in equal measure.

gregggonsalves.bsky.social•68 days ago

And one last note. Today not 4, 5 years ago Lee & Macedo’s heroes are palling around w anti-vaxxers, joining the Trump administration’s assault on science. 1/

gregggonsalves.bsky.social•68 days ago

And while they will maintain “we’”, this amorphous group called public health pushed their mavericks into the orbit of the right, the simpler explanation is that they are not champions for working people, but for conservative goals . 2/

gregggonsalves.bsky.social•68 days ago

And in fact, it was there for them to see from the very start. The Brownstone Institute is a right wing tank tank. So please now tell me how the contrarians are working class heroes. 3/

gregggonsalves.bsky.social•68 days ago

Someone said to me the other day that the march of liberals into a conservative retelling of the story of the pandemic is about their own loss of privilege during the pandemic & their deep anger that they were being asked to sacrifice for a greater good that was only ever lip service before then. 4/

gregggonsalves.bsky.social•68 days ago

Someone should tell that story. End/

mdwallach.bsky.social•68 days ago

100%

greyson.bsky.social•68 days ago

How did this get through peer review? Whew.

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