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Covidocracy asks the question many preferred not to ask:
Do pandemics defend dictatorships and challenge democracies?
Published by @bloomsburypol.bsky.social this April.
#NewBook #Politics #Democracy #Dictatorship #PandemicPolitics #BookTwitter #Nonfiction #MiddleEast

Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.

A 2020 Fed study found German cities hit hardest by the 1918 flu spent less on people—and voted more for Nazis. Pandemic trauma fed civic neglect and extremism. In 2025 America, under Trump II, the echoes are too loud to ignore. #HistoryWarning #PandemicPolitics

The likely confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services (antivax, conspiracy theory, bear cub-killing whackjob), what could go wrong? 🤡💀

#HuddleUp #FOTUS #ExecutiveDisorder #WHOwalkout #PublicHealthWho #PandemicPolitics #AmericaLast #ShortSightedAndSick

Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

🌍 No more data sharing. Stumbling in the dark. Bleach at the ready, quaking for a cure. The next pandemic will come, indifferent to the borders some politicians find most important. Here’s to fighting blind.

#WHO
#WithdrawalSymptoms #PandemicPolitics

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

🦠📉 Why have the 2024 presidential candidates largely ignored the impact of the pandemic in their campaigns? Prof Michael Serazio dives into this critical omission and its implications for American society and politics. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4fD59J0 #PandemicPolitics #Election2024

📢 #PanDDemiC update!

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