"In Covid's Wake" Part 2: Wrong About The Right

Last episode we met two Princeton political scientists who are bad at virology. Today we learn that they are also bad at political science.
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Sources:
• Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year” (lawrencewright.com/books/the-plague-year-ameri…)
• Jonathan Howard’s “We Want Them Infected” (redhawkpublications.com/We-Want-Them-Infected-…)
• How the Pandemic Defeated America (theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coron…)
• COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/impac…)
• US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11282449)
• Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.…)
• Policy Interventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7833753/pdf/m…)
• The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on US Cumulative Deaths (brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/16937…)
• Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates (npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/10598…)
• Report for the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry (covid19inquiry.scot/sites/default/files/ev-doc…)
• The Effectiveness Of Government Masking Mandates (healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072)
• School closures during COVID-19 (ebm.bmj.com/content/28/3/164)
• COVID-19–Related School Closures (wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/1/23-1215_article)
• The Effects of School Closures on COVID‑19 (link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40258-0…)
• Higher COVID-19 Deaths with Later School Closure in the United States (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10275350/pdf/…)
• Reopening America’s Schools (tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15582159.2020.…)
• Reading literacy decline in Europe (sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475…)
• DeSantis vs. Newsom (archive.ph/X9pCG#selection-1431.0-1431.19)
• Red States Have Seen Less Learning Loss (educationnext.org/red-states-have-seen-less-le…)
• Political partisanship and mobility restriction (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7437478)
• Republicans Aren’t New To The Anti-Vaxx Movement (fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-arent…)
• KFF poll on anti-vaxx beliefs (kff.org/health-information-and-trust/poll-find…)
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