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An Interview with Mike Davis
From: Crisis and Contagion
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Ian McKay interviews Marxist thinker, Mike Davis. Davis discusses what factors contributed to the global spread of COVID-19 and the varying responses from governments during the outbreak. Davis critizes the lack of pandemic planning despite the predictions that a virus related to animal consumption was coming. McKay and Davis discuss poor public health initiatives, the exploitation of essential workers, and the failures of neoliberal governments.
Contributors
Ian McKay
Ian McKay is the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University and the author of the award-winning Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890–1920 and the co-author of Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in the Age of Anxiety.
