“The Pandemic and Democracy”

Produced at KSQD 90.7FM

Democracy is being challenged by a pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic challenges not only physicians, public health agencies, scientists and ordinary people, but also democracy.  Never before has the US had to confront a virus that generated government behavioral edicts and required elected officials to have to interpret the unknown behavior of a disease-causing pathogen, the Corona Virus -19. News, information and recommendations now become known quickly with social media reaching the entire country overnight.

In past epidemics, the behavior of the causative agent or pathogen was known sufficiently for physicians to give generally agreed upon advice, even though often that advice was incorrect or had little or no effect on the disease.  This  ...