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Jay Foster and Jenifer Barton

Jay Foster is acting director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program and teaches in the Philosophy Department at Memorial University. Jenifer Barton is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.

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    Opinion

    You know who was complacent about COVID-19? The premier

    A charge of complacency might be levelled at the pandemic policies of Premier Andrew Furey's Liberal government. Rather than implementing an active and robust testing strategy, the government's main pandemic response has been to create the impression of a cordon sanitaire around Newfoundland and Labrador.
    Canada Nfld. & Labrador
    Opinion

    To avoid 'pandemic fatigue,' N.L. needs to change how it manages COVID-19

    Historically speaking, pandemics come to an end in one of two ways. The first end is medical, the other fatigue from following strict orders, write contributors Jay Foster and Jenifer Barton.
    Canada Nfld. & Labrador
    Opinion

    'Evidence-based' does not mean there is no politics

    Decisions about acceptable risks are inherently political decisions, write contributors Jay Foster and Jenifer Barton. 'In the case of SARS-CoV2, there must be many political decisions because the science is not yet all that clear.'
    Canada Nfld. & Labrador