Essays
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Collateral effects of lockdown to combat the COVID-19-pandemic in Austria
Andreas Sönnichsen, MD Download full article here Background In March 2020 the Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz proclaimed that within weeks “everybody will have a family member or good friend dead due to COVID and Austria will face the horror of tens of thousands of deaths”. With these statements Austria went into lockdown on March 16, […]
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Why are we the academic oddballs?
Professors Ellen Townsend and Paul Dolan reflect on how they became ‘outlier voices’ during the pandemic.
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Child Safeguarding Harms & The Pandemic Response
We must not aim simply to restore ‘normality’ for children. Instead, we should look to offer a level of support that is commensurate with the harms incurred.
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The Pandemic Response and the Myth of the Caring Society
There is a glaring inconsistency between our self-perception as 'caring' and the reality of our actions
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5 mins
Lockdown and Communication Changes are Leaving Many Disabled People Behind
Autistic people and those with learning disabilities continue to face reduced access to essential services and supports
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6 mins
ESSAY: ‘Special liberties’ and the amnesia of Covid-19 suffering and sacrifice
Stories from frontline adult care worker staff
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9 mins
ESSAY: Covid-19, Utopianism, and the Reimagination of Society
Pandemic responses produced a malleable population ready to accept and actively encourage all manner of things that they would have resisted just two years ago.
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2 mins
ESSAY: Young people need a return to normal – Now
Resilience and wi-fi are not enough to save children from the effects of a socially-distanced world