David Seedhouse - The Case for Democracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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One moment life was normal, the next, governments around the world were imposing radical lockdowns of their populations. But why were decision-makers so readily ignoring centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Where was the discussion of ethics and human rights? Why were we so easily controlled and why were our controllers so willing to do it?
In The Case for Democracy, David Seedhouse explores the psychological biases; distorted risk perceptions; frenetic journalism; the disputed science; the narrow focus of experts; value judgements dressed up as truths; propaganda; the invisibility of ethics; and the alarming irrelevance of inclusive democracy that have been features of governmental responses to the covid-19 pandemic.
Seedhouse argues that the chaotic governmental response to Coronavirus, with no attempt to include the public, is the perfect argument for an extensive, participatory democracy; a democracy that demonstrates practical decision making by listening to everyones knowledge and expertise.
Now is the time for us to solve our problems together.
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David Seedhouse, 2020
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This book is for my father, Charles Donald Seedhouse, who died as a young man, and who I dearly hope would be proud of the effort it has taken to write it.
It is also for Dr Edward (Ed) Harris, of St Helens in the UK and Greenlane Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. He died as an older man and was also like a father to me. I think Edward would have disagreed with what he may have called my cavalier attitude towards the pandemic, as well as with a lot of the book's discussion. But whether he agreed with it or not, I know he would have insisted I write it.
David Seedhouse is a philosopher, writer and software developer. His many books explore the nature of health, rationality and ethical reasoning. The question that runs through all his work, including the present text, is: how can we make the most effective, justifiable decisions?
In part, writing this book was a form of personal therapy. Not only did I need to try to understand the extreme human reaction to COVID-19, but I needed to cope with the mental and emotional impacts I was personally experiencing.
The more I tried to navigate the pandemic's tangled web, the more I felt just a little more in control. Many restrictions were imposed on everyone's lives, but at least I was free to form my own judgements. The ability to express these, with the expectation that I would be able to communicate and share my thoughts with others, was a massive encouragement to me. I profoundly thank my two editors at Sage, Alex Clabburn and Natalie Aguilera (my editor for this book), for having the faith that I could deliver this ambitious project.
I would also like to thank Vanessa Peutherer for her love and support in difficult circumstances, and for tolerating my determination to reach an implausible deadline. Every day Vanessa would send me links and articles of unfailing relevance, and these have greatly strengthened the evidence-base of the book.
Her sons, James and Zak, and James's partner Ava, have also been remarkably tolerant of the stresses I have both experienced and caused. I thank all three of them.
I am extremely grateful to my friends and colleagues David Ball, David Marks, and Michael Loughlin for supporting my book proposal so enthusiastically, and helping me find information I needed.
Finally, this book was written and published quickly. While I have checked facts where they exist, and attempted a steady, logical argument, there are bound to be errors of various kinds. I take full responsibility for these. I hope the freshness and sense of discovery in words minimally edited is some compensation.
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
The Works of Benjamin Franklin, 1817
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, organised citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
This book has a simple theme and structure, anchored in a troubling dichotomy between certainty and uncertainty. The most striking element of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the confidence of governments in their measures, when almost everything is highly uncertain and much including knowing whether the measures will work is just not known. This incongruity is reflected in several other imbalanced dualities, for example, science versus community values, risk management versus civil liberties, epidemiological modelling versus the modelling of broader social consequences, and paternalistic enforcement versus informed consent.
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