COVID-19 [electronic resource] : proportionality, public policy and social distancing / Peter Murphy.

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]©2020

Murphy, Peter, 1956- author.

01-01-2021

1 online resource (xii, 122 pages).

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E-BOOK (Copy 1) EBL 1272421-1001 ONLINE

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COVID-19

Communicable disease control

Social impact

Government policy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9789811575143

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Social Distance -- 1.1 2020 -- 1.2 Mortality -- 1.3 Interpersonal Distance -- References -- Chapter 2: Public Policy -- 2.1 Proportionality -- 2.2 The Ferguson Report -- 2.3 Mitigation -- 2.4 Unintended Consequences -- References -- Chapter 3: Social Mood -- 3.1 Mentalities -- 3.1.1 Catastrophism -- 3.1.2 Alarmism -- 3.1.3 Pessimism -- 3.1.4 Futurism -- 3.1.5 Realism -- 3.1.6 Rationalism -- 3.1.7 Pluralism -- 3.1.8 Moralism -- 3.2 Politics -- 3.2.1 Romanticism -- 3.2.2 Asceticism -- 3.2.3 Organic Solidarity -- 3.2.4 The Emergency State -- 3.2.5 The Planned State -- 3.2.6 Freedom -- 3.3 Beliefs -- 3.3.1 Explanatory Beliefs -- 3.3.2 Consolatory Beliefs -- 3.3.3 Heroism -- 3.3.4 The Fear of Death -- 3.3.5 The Fear of Finitude -- 3.3.6 The Fear of Strangers -- 3.3.7 Emotivism -- 3.3.8 The Death of God -- 3.3.9 Stoicism -- References -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

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