Love in the Time of Corona
A handful of days back, Sundhetsstyrelsen, the Danish ministry of health, took pains to make clear that their government's decision to seal the borders was a politically, rather than medically, motivated. At the same time, only an impressive amount of naiveté could think that the directives issued from any ministry somehow reflect a kind of neutral, un-politicized, "scientific" position. Take, for example, the Swedish epidemiologist of state Anders Tegnell's claim that more drastic measures would cause "inequality" ( ojämställdhet) between work-places, or that children to infected parents