How Did We Fare on COVID-19? - Voters didn’t think their states failed on pandemic response.
How Did We Fare on COVID-19? - Voters didn’t think their states failed on pandemic response.
- June 19, 2025
- Cailin O’Connor and Jim Weatherall, LPS, Boston Review, June 19, 2025
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Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professors of Logic and Philosophy of Science write, “We think the U.S. COVID-19 response was not as thoroughly flawed as [Stephen] Macedo and [Frances] Lee conclude. … In the end, one extremely important measure of whether political leaders properly balanced the competing considerations that mattered most to their constituents is what happened when they next faced voters. On that measure, the answer is clear.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-did-we-fare-on-covid-19/oconnor-weatherall-respond/.
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