Coronavirus: Return to sender — economists’ letter is gibberish
HENRY ERGAS and JONATHAN PINCUS

Like some books, there are petitions that deserve to be forgotten, not for the sake of their potential readers but to protect the reput­ation of their authors. The open letter by a bevy of economists urging­ Scott Morrison to keep the COVID-19 restrictions in place is a case in point.

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With the toll from the coronavirus declining to very low levels, Australians need some clarity about the path back towards normality.

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When Albert Camus set out to write The Plague, the novel that more than any other work earned him the Nobel prize for literature in 1957, words almost failed him.

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While the response of federal and state governments to the spread of COVID-19 is understandable, there must be a danger of going too far.

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On March 24, 1976, as the US prepared to celebrate its ­bicentenary, president Gerald Ford faced a decision­ which could only damage his chances of winning the ­election that was to be held that ­November.

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Cosmic catastrophe always there if you look for it

In one of his last works, written a decade after he had defined ­enlightenment as “daring to know”, Immanuel Kant identified what he regarded as one of the greatest threats to reason: the human tendency to seek, in ever-changing realitie­s, a sign of the End of Days.

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