OR SO THEY TELL US
Cass Sunstein, the academic lawyer and “nudge politics” entrepreneur who was once Barack Obama’s regulatory tsar, wrote an opinion piece about Covid-19 for Bloomberg News at the end of February 2020. “A lot of people are more scared than they have any reason to be,” he complained; the real peril was “excessive fear”, which might hurt the economy. Within a month, more than 1,000 people had died in New York alone.
In his latest book, about what we can do to mitigate the spread of false information, Sunstein castigates the Fox News anchor Sean Hannity for failing to take Covid seriously on 27 February – the day
