Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: borders

3 bookmarks tagged “borders

The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive - Lessons From The Crisis

lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com/p/the-experts-can-stay-wrong-longer
Early in 2020 Western governments, alarmed by reports from China, asked the international public health community whether they should close borders to limit the spread of coronavirus into their country. The UK government consulted its pandemic flu plans

Should we build a wall around North Wales?

lrb.co.uk/v39/n14/daniel-trilling/should-we-build-a-wall-around-north-wales
People develop attachments to places, they move, they develop attachments to new places, and to new people. If you think people have a right to do that, then the question is how to support it. If you don’t, then you need to ask yourself: what level of violence are you prepared to tolerate to keep people in their place?