Power we ask Award Winning sociologist Richard Lachlan how Mass Mobilization can now transform the neoliberal world order all this more coming up in todays going underground or 1st all around the world our politicians will today be telling you how to live your lives and not be killed by coronavirus how to decode what theyre saying and bypass the politicized spin incompetence and malfeasance joining me via skype from berlin is director of the Harding Center of a risk literacy professor good. Thanks so much guys for coming on so as i say were going to all be watching our politicians tell us about the fact that they are following the science how should we interpret what those politicians tell us in the in the context of risk and literacy think it would be really important that people themselves think about the risks to get into or only seen. With their behavior im also not sure hope that politicians know whats the best thing to do this is a situation of uncertainty where we came not to ca
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Ventilators were bought for corona virus that it turns out we dont need why are we more scared of what is less likely to kill us the key problem you know society is that we all have learned how to read and write but note how to become risk literate that is to understand the numbers so the numbers that made us feel the numbers of infections of tests and also to understand the kind of thinking about what might lead to ward problems youve talked articulately how to interpret mammogram results cancer risk flu risk which ill get onto in a moment had i better just ask you then are we more scared than we should be about coronavirus theres nobody who came to tell you exactly where this virus is growing so we need to live with uncertainty. But we can protect us against her reactions that creates more problems so the classical situation of the earliest 911 Many Americans after 911 stopped flying and what to do they use their cars instead ive underlies the traffic statistics and fog that for 12 m
About how to fix americas elections and several of you noted maybe thats on the best since our goal is precisely the opposite to figure out how to prevent american license from being fixed although will have a very wide ranging discussion of the two books that both of our panels had written in about constitutional issues in the news relating to the coronavirus in the electoral system. Please join us next week for a superb discussion of another book on his new book how to restore trust, the merck institution, that is next tuesday and you can learn more about the program and others at Constitution Center. Org live. We will be taking questions out the program so you can put your questions in the q a box and ill just offer them dry panelist when it seems right during the discussion, please be interactive, these are very meaningful opportunities to have a conversation about the meaning of the constitution and thats exactly what were going to do. It took great pleasure that i introduce her t