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Nicholas Agar

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    • COVID-19 in 2021
    • COVID-19 in 2020
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COVID-19 in 2022

Too much information, too little time: Why conspiracy theories appeal to the time-poor - 17 Mar 2022

A piece for the ABC on how time poverty promotes conspiracy thinking. 

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Time to teach pandemic preparedness - August 16, 2022

A piece with Newsroom on how Aotearoa's universities could contribute to healing of our sharp disagreements about Covid vaccines.

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When you’ll know the pandemic is over - March 16, 2022

If we can't eradicate Covid-19 what are some signs that we are ready to step down from our war footing against the pandemic?

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Protests show we must boost cognitive herd immunity - February 13, 2022

One of the features of protests against vaccine mandates is the diversity of reasons offered to appose them. Considered individually these reasons are easily countered. But they gain power in a mob. Boosting our cognitive herd immunity is the only real response.

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Beware politicians who bright-side scientific advice - February 8, 2022

This explores a tendency among politicians to seek the most optimistic interpretation of scientific advice. It explains many of our disappointments about the Omicron variant of concern.

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How the pandemic put science on steroids - February 4, 2022

Let's hope that the lasting legacy of the pandemic is a political empowerment of the warnings of established science.

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Time to ponder the what-ifs of our pandemic - January 25, 2022

This piece draws on a 1933 essay by John Maynard Keynes to pose a counterfactual. What if Aotearoa had really done everything it could to keep COVID-19 out? 

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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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What will our memorials to Covid-19 tell us? - January 3, 2022

New Zealanders will want to memorialise the pandemic. Can we remember the suffering in ways that prepare us for an uncertain future?

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Never mind the naysayers — let’s start listening to the “silent majority” 21 Sep, 2021

A piece on how to understand and respond to very vocal protests about vaccines.

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