Merry Christmas from Professor Gigi Foster and Discernable!

Gigi Foster is a Professor and Director of Education at The School of Economics at UNSW Business School. She holds qualifications in ethics, politics and economics, and has been speaking out against the ‘Covid Panic’ from the very beginning of the pandemic. Professor Foster was one of the first to publish a cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns, and quickly came to the conclusion that governments around the world are causing net harm on the lives of their citizens, both from a quality of life perspective and a biological survival perspective. This discussion is our Christmas present to all who care to receive it – a discussion full of rationality and sense-making, ending with broader perspectives and predictions on what 2022 will look like. Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wDgDWaXWeyY ------------------------------ DISCERNABLE Our Private Community: https://discernable.locals.com The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable & https://odysee.com/@discernable GIGI FOSTER https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/gigi-foster https://www.linkedin.com/in/gigi-foster-3346464 https://www.amazon.com.au/Great-Covid-Panic-What-Happened/dp/1630692778 THE BARBEQUE BULLETIN https://www.instagram.com/thebarbequebulletin https://twitter.com/TheBBQBulletin SANJEEV SABHLOK https://www.sabhlokcity.com ------------------------------ 1:38 What do economists really care about? 9:00 The Great Covid Panic 11:25 The global fear overreaction 15:15 Crowd formation and its psychology 21:20 Protests in Victoria and their potential 28:09 Discrimination is unsustainable in a competitive market 32:11 Working around the system and educational resources for people 42:10 Future predictions for Western democratic nations 51:05 Institutions that will crumble and institutions that will survive 53:32 The ‘right side of history’ 55:45 Breaking down the Australian population 1:00:57 Is the global Covid response utilitarianism on steroids? 1:12:00 Virtue signalling 1:15:40 We need more humour