When Is Lockdown Justified?

verfasst von

Lucie White, Philippe van Basshuysen, Mathias Frisch

Abstract

How could the initial, drastic decisions to implement “lockdowns” to control the spread of Covid-19 infections be justifiable, when they were made on the basis of such uncertain evidence? We defend the imposition of lockdowns in some countries by, first, looking at the evidence that undergirded the decision (focusing particularly on the decision-making process in the United Kingdom); second, arguing that this provided sufficient grounds to restrict liberty, given the circumstances; and third, defending the use of poorly empirically constrained epidemiological models as tools that can legitimately guide public policy.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Philosophie

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Philosophy of Medicine

Band

3

ISSN

2692-3963

Publikationsdatum

29.04.2022

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2022.85 (Zugang: Offen)