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Toby Green, formerly a journalist and travel writer, is Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College London. His 2019 book 'A Fistful of Shells' won the British Academy's Nayef Al-Rohdan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the American Historical Association's Jerry Bentley Prize in World History and the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown.
'A thoughtful analysis of the forces and attitudes that unleashed lockdowns upon the global poor, with harrowing descriptions of the consequences.' -- Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, University of Oxford, and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration 'An excellent book at a critical time. Pandemics breed hysteria, to which the only cure is reason. This book is a masterly dose of reason, challenging, questioning and sceptical in the best sense of the word.' -- Simon Jenkins, author and columnist 'Nuanced and rigorous. This is not a thoughtless polemic, but a reasoned plea for progressives to put social inequality at the centre of pandemic responses.' -- Labour Hub 'This rigorously researched book lifts the veil on the disastrous effects of lockdowns worldwide and raises more questions than it can answer given the continuing global crisis. It is a much-needed left-leaning critical intervention in the prevailing political consensus characterised by a totalitarian merging of Big Tech, Big Pharma, media corporations and government. Read it, weep (it is harrowing in parts), then read it again.' -- Left Lockdown Sceptics 'Even in the face of viruses and death, some humans are still more equal than others. This book demonstrates it abundantly while challenging conventional wisdom on the pandemic and how to confront it.' -- Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, SOAS University of London 'In a grave pandemic, what is the acceptable level of mortality risk relative to the damage to society, economy and poor countries from lockdowns? Toby Green's searching scrutiny and anguished analysis of this dilemma is a much-needed corrective to simplistic slogans.' -- Ramesh Thakur, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Emeritus Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University 'An intellectual treat for critical thinkers who are watching the sunset of reason and feel that all that is essential is invisible to the eyes of many. This book sheds light on reason and makes the invisible visible.' -- Yossi Nehushtan, Professor of Law and Philosophy, Keele University 'Toby Green brilliantly picks apart the underlying incongruities which allowed Covid-19 to upend democratic, scientific and international norms. From the loss of thousand-year-old traditions to the effective re-colonisation of sub-Saharan Africa, these changes should concern us all.' -- David Bell, independent consultant, and former medical officer, World Health Organization 'An admirably measured description of 2020's immeasurable destruction, charting the shocking fallout from governments' virus-suppression policies in the Global North and South. The Covid Consensus should be read by everyone who still believes that lockdowns save lives.' -- Sinead Murphy, Lecturer in Philosophy, Newcastle University '[The Covid Consensus] is the best hope yet of an antidote to the Covid lobotomy, performing the near impossible task of detailing ... the great horrors that government lockdowns have brought to bear on populations in the Global North and South, without once betraying the kind of outrage that causes those who believe in the Covid narrative to close their ears and shut their eyes, both to fact and to feeling.' -- Lockdown Sceptics
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