Are we overreacting to the coronavirus threat and merely creating bigger risks down the road?

04/01/2024 No. 202

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By Josef Gregory Mahoney
March 1, 2020

For a virus with a lower fatality rate than peak flu season in the US, millions are being quarantined, borders closed, flights cut and economic and political costs are mounting.

With human rights swept aside and public health politicised, are we creating more problems than we hope to solve?

https://www.scmp.com/print/comment/opinion/article/3048953/are-we-overreacting-coronavirus-threat-and-merely-creating-bigger

Josef Gregory Mahoney is professor of politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai, where he also directs the International Centre for Advanced Political Studies and the international graduate programme in politics. He was previously with the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau in Beijing, then China’s leading think tank.