Archiving the Pandemic
CES (com)vida 2020
Pandemicity, COVID-19 and the limits of public health 'science'
Eugene T Richardson
BMJ Global Health
Overview
In this brief note, Eugene Richardson draws attention to the constructed character of the current pandemic, obvious in WHO's own hesitation in declaring the state of the pandemic. Furthermore, according to the author, the epidemiologists' models regarding other recent epidemics or pandemics showed a very low, even contradictory, predictive potential.
Richardson also shows how the whole modeling exercise is always a political act loaded with ideology, especially given its underlying assumptions. It is worth asking where the data and empirical evidence ends and ideology begins.
The imputation of model influencing behaviours does not take into account the long history of domination, exploitation, patriarchy and colonialism.
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