A Look Back at Lockdowns

Two left-leaning authors, historian Toby Green and economist Thomas Fazi, have written a new book on the global response to the Covid pandemic, The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor? A Critique from the Left. For some reason, they chose to subtitle it with a question. Was the standard response to Covid an “assault on democracy and the poor”? That punctuation might lead readers to expect a fraught debate about the wisdom of Covid policy across the globe.