https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h en-us 2021-01-20 10:28:56 UTC 2025-11-30 23:04:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1106037758 TASK 1

1) Each group to discuss how to position the five risks on the 2x2 matrix in the powerpoint template
2) One person in each group to download the template and rearrange the risks to reflect group discussion
3) Upload the revised powerpoint slide to padlet, entitling your slide with a memorable group name.
4) Be prepared to explain your decisions in a plenary session

TASK 2

With reference to: i) your background reading for this session; ii) the above task; iii) the covid related readings I sent out yesterday, and iv) any other readings, personal views, examples etc. discuss the following question in your group and be prepared to participate in a plenary session discussion:

Some people claim that we live in a ‘nanny’ state and that individuals need to take more responsibility for managing their own risk. How far should governments intervene to protect people from harm?

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NB COVID Readings sent out 20.1.21

To get you to start thinking about the overarching question of how far the state should interfere with people’s liberties to protect them from harm you might like to consider the debate around Covid lockdowns following publication of the Great Barrington Declaration and the controversy over the views of  the retired supreme court justice, Lord Sumption (see here: A new relationship between power and liberty (anti- libertarian); Lord Sumption: the only coherent position is locking down without limit—or not locking down at all (Lord Sumption’s reply); and here: Experts unconvinced by Lord Sumption's lockdown ethics )]]> 2021-01-20 14:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1106037758 henryrothstein1 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1106131091 Powerpoint Template]]> 2021-01-20 15:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1106131091 nathanielgordon1 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109813652 2021-01-21 12:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109813652 matthiasklaus1 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109815697 Jad, Yuli, Xiazhe, Hannah, Matthias

- Nanny State:
--> trade-off between necessary measures to fight COVID, as opposed to damages the measures to to society
--> some risks, that can be easily assessed and avoided, do not require governmental interference
--> government should intervene in cases people cannot assess / avoid risks easily on their own.]]> 2021-01-21 12:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109815697 beca98 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109820473 2021-01-21 12:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109820473 beca98 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109824636 Nanny State

- Very, if not entirely, based on political leanings. 
- Based on what the risk is, and what people's perceptions of it is. 
- Do regulations need to be in place for people to be able to manage their own risks?
- Example: Food allergens --> "may contain traces of nuts" --> up to individuals to decide if this is a risk they're willing to take --> but needs to be mandated/regulated first?

]]> 2021-01-21 12:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109824636 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109838031 2021-01-21 12:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109838031 mariemusca https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109839324 2021-01-21 12:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109839324 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109841900 Nanny State - 

we need to have some guidance on how we deal with things, and there needs to be some form of 'governance' over events that affect a large proportion of the population 

People start to complain about being governed ]]> 2021-01-21 12:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109841900 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109842749 -Nanny state:
Political motivations overarch the topic and determine the extents of this. 
- Risks are existing regardless - the state may well introduce regulations etc but enforcing these are wholly different situations
-Based on cultural risk and how ingrained the practice is to society / businesses 

]]> 2021-01-21 12:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109842749 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109872828 Urban Air Pollution - business can plug the gap by offering their air monitoring services, the state tends to have some way of gauging the monitoring of the risk. It is a hard risk to avoid -
- Wear a N95 mask; to filter out the chemicals, these need to be fit tested to your face so particles can't get in, but only medical professionals have the access to this. Mask Mandates are becoming more and more common - meant to be 95% effective but if it's not fit tested, the effectiveness of it deteriorates. Something beyond the individual to manage themselves.

Food Allergens in loose food:
- There are people that are hypoallergenic
- there is some obligation on the person selling you the food to disclose what is in the food
- Opt-out problem could exist if the people that sell food; say that it just may contain x,y,z - how do you buy food if everything says may contain?
- Henry - puts food allergens in the top right corner

Wild Swimming in the Thames:
- People can see its a river, and that it is a fast current, below surface currents that people cannot easily see and to access the risk accessed with them easily
- avoid - easy to avoid it ; just don't swim in it
- there are some designated places to go swimming now in central London.
- use of resources

Fly Tipping:
--  It is situationally dependent 
-- victims of fly tipping 
- it is difficult to avoid, Henry thinks that it requires; 
- incentives people going through the right channel ]]> 2021-01-21 13:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1109872828 https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1110003206 Unpasteurised Milk : 
- consumer doesn't know if it has or hasn't been; conditions are the information system - how much more information do we need to give people about the consequences of this. 
-labelling issue 
- is there an opt-out problem? 
- we should have general food safety law; and we should not sell this; ]]> 2021-01-21 13:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/henryrothstein1/6vzbf2qnvt1mwb6h/wish/1110003206