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Snapshots From the 2020 Global Shutdown

Snapshots:

from the 2020 Global Shutdown

Snapshots from the 2020 Global Shutdown With an introduction with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Snapshots gives you an important glimpse into COVID-19’s unaccounted impact and a roadmap to the future. The authors, an international group of law students reviewed the legal basis—or lack thereof—for government actions providing a crucial “snapshot in time” in a cross […]

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Snapshots from the 2020 Global Shutdown

With an introduction with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Snapshots gives you an important glimpse into COVID-19’s unaccounted impact and a roadmap to the future. The authors, an international group of law students reviewed the legal basis—or lack thereof—for government actions providing a crucial “snapshot in time” in a cross section of countries from mid-March to mid-August 2020.

A sobering picture

Snapshots from the 2020 Global Shutdown presents a sobering picture of how the world has weathered the coronavirus pandemic. While the disease seems under greater control by September 2020, its collateral consequences—unemployment, economic recession, authoritarian rule, food insecurity, school closures, police brutality, restrictions on movement, censorship, hardships on vulnerable populations—are likely to last for some time.

This report elegantly details government responses to COVID-19 from Kenya to Kyrgyzstan and from China to Canada, such as:

While it remains premature to catalogue the lessons, the authors of Snapshots have produced a chronicle that can serve as a first draft of this unprecedented history. And this story is far from over.

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