Neil Ferguson interview: China changed what was possible
Professor Ferguson in our April interview on LockdownTV
Professor Neil Ferguson has given an extraordinary interview to Tom Whipple at The Times, in which he confirms the degree to which he believes that imitating China’s lockdown policies at the start of 2020 changed the parameters of what Western societies consider acceptable.
“I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March,†Professor Ferguson says. When SAGE observed the “innovative intervention†out of China, of locking entire communities down and not permitting them to leave their homes, they initially presumed it would not be an available option in a liberal Western democracy:
It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought… and then Italy did it. And we realised we could.
- Professor Neil Ferguson, The Times
https://unherd.com/thepost/neil-ferguson-interview-china-changed-what-was-possible/
