From anti-lockdown protests and overburdened healthcare systems to mass labor actions and viral disinformation, from global vaccine apartheid to anti-vaccination movements, politics in the age of COVID-19 has been a frenetic mess that’s brought out the best and worst of our societies. While much attention has been focused on the frenzied divides characterizing US politics over the course of the pandemic, the political scene in Europe also demonstrates how COVID-19 has dramatically exacerbated critical tensions between social factions and their competing definitions of freedom and social responsibility. Is this all unprecedented, or are we seeing the kind of politics that have historically emerged during past pandemics? And where is this all headed?
In this interview, TRNN contributor David Kattenburg sits down with Frits Rosendaal and Pawel Zerka to discuss how COVID-19 and the governmental responses to it have shaped the political terrain in Europe. Frits Rosendaal is professor of Clinical Epidemiology and chairman of the department of Clinical Epidemiology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he researches the causes of cardiovascular disease. In 2003 he received the Spinoza prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands, and he is an elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Science and Arts, as well as of the German Academy Leopoldina. Pawel Zerka is a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, where he contributes to the Re:shape Global Europe project, which seeks to develop new strategies for Europeans to understand and engage with the changing international order. He holds a PhD in economics and a master’s degree in international relations from the Warsaw School of Economics.
Pre-Production: David Kattenburg
Studio/Post Production: Cameron Granadino
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The antivaxxers try ro control the narrative with lies and half truths.
Blindly believing the all to often corrupt authorities is the first step to losing liberty or freedom.
Although COVID can be deadly for people with underlying conditions. Covid has over a 99% survival rate. Many leftists media has said this is not factually true. I read an article that said it is false that info 99.8% survival rate BECAUSE it's actually only 99.5% 🤯. I'm not even kidding. That's how they label it as false. Is because the . Decimal point. But even they admit it's over 99%. But people just read oh that's false& go about their day. My 60-year-old mother caught covid about 5 months ago she's been a smoker since she was 16 years old and she is fine. She had diarrhea and feeling fatigued and achy. Just 6 days ago my 10-year-old caught covid and the first morning upon her waking up not feeling well she had 100.1 fever and said she felt achy and had a headache. I slept in bed with her being as she wasn't feeling good and she was even facing me breathing on me while we slept and I got a headache for about a hour and felt slightly more tired than usual. My husband and son both said they got a headache for a couple of hours. Literally have had worse colds and no we are not vaccinated. Today was my daughter's first day back at school. She just enjoyed being able to be out of school for 5 days.
This is bullshit agenda based verbiage … I live in Spain Valencia and one can hug kisse fuck duck … As for these old geezer's liberte problem … Every state is a violent institution and so is rotten france, germany, spain, Italy and what have you EU … So pathetic this mainstream media mud
And again, a so-called right-wing news slow walking us into the lefts propaganda! Cant trust anyone anymore!
Liberty and Freedom cannot be “redefined “ unsubscribed.
WTF
Wow, Real News Network turning its back on liberty and siding with auhoritarianism. Disgusting
Look in a mirror RNN, and please wake up.
Authoritarianism of any kind NEVER leads to anything positive.
Are you actually drawing parallels between polio vaccine & the covid crap shot?!?
ZzZzZz
Dam dude, spit out what you want to say, uhhhhh, ehhhhhhhh, errrrrrrrrr, sounds like your gargling sand
Thank you China!
In your introduction you failed to mention the glaring government corruption and medical and pharmaceutical industry corruption and predation, in the U.S., in any case. It is no mystery that a large portion of the public no longer trusts these entities.
Polio was also cured with heat !
The younger generation are not glued to the TV sets.
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Vax'ed or unvaxed ?
Dr Sucharit Bhakdi Dr Richard Flaming Dr Peter McCullough MD MPH Dr Knut Wittkowski Dr Michael Yeadon Dr David Martin patents Lawyer Reiner Fullmich sueing for Crime's against Humanity Dr Pierre Kory
The restrictions were accepted because of the fear mongering and brainwashing.
Sad to see so many so called progressives taking this stance. You will not vaccinate you way out of C19. That's a fact.
This is now an (E)ndemic, get it right. Stop fear mongering.
Counsel on Foreign Relations?Hmmm…
Excellent interview, thanks for this. Both contributors and the interviewer made for an interesting discussion.