Blinded by the curve: how Covid-19 sceptics were fooled

Blinded by the curve: how Covid-19 sceptics were fooled

David Fleming & Niall McCrae From the very beginning of the Covid-19 spectacle, the central image was not the virus itself but the graphical trajectory of contagion. The idea of ‘flattening the curve’ became the emotional trigger for unprecedented restrictions to be accepted by citizens acros