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Nicholas Agar

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  • Home
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  • Opinion Pieces
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    • COVID-19 in 2021
    • COVID-19 in 2020
    • Future of Work
    • Future of the Humanities
    • Technological Change
    • Issues of the Day

COVID-19 in 2021

COVID-19 and politicians bright-siding scientific advice -December 28, 2021

Beware of politicians bright-siding scientific advice!

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No nation has conquered Covid - December 1, 2021

A piece in Barrons that summarised the international state of play in the Pandemic. Written with Arthur L. Caplan, Oliver Feeney, and Vojin Rakic

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The paradox of choice: How Australia’s vaccine rollout provides a warning for the future of the flu

What Covid vaccines could teach us about the future of flu - a piece on the ABC

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What can Australia learn from Serbia about vaccine hesitancy? - October 12, 2021

A piece for the ABC that compares Australia's and Serbia's approaches to Covid vaccines.

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Covid: How will we know when it’s over? - December 6, 2021

Each time we expect the pandemic to be over COVID-19 throws a new variant it us. If we never eradicate the virus how will be know when the pandemic is over?

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The rage within our pandemic - December 14, 2021

A piece exploring opposing sources of anger about vaccines. There are the angry anti-vaxxers. But there are also people intensely disappointed that our vaccines haven't yet ended the pandemic.

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Why you can't reason with the mob - November 23, 2021

A piece exploring the immense difficulties in reasoning with people who form themselves into either a virtual or real-world mob.

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Vaccines and our irrational natures - June 25, 2021

It's difficult to reason with anti-vaxxers. Perhaps the best option is to focus on the irrational aspects of our natures. We are all driven by motives that have nothing to do with reason. It doesn't matter what our attitude toward vaccination is. 

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Vaccine ‘apartheid’ a threat to public health (with Snita Ahir-Knight) - May 26, 2021

This explores a downside of so many effective vaccines.

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Has the ANZAC high-trust model come back to bite us? - April 15, 2021

The awkward transition from keeping COVID-19 out to vaccinating against it.

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A year on: Don’t let Covid bring out the petty in us - March 23, 2021

A look back on the year since Kiwi lockdown

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Has the Treaty played a role in our Covid success? - Jan 28, 2021

This piece defends the view that New Zealand's success against the coronavirus may be largely down to Māori ethical ideas.

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