Ben Darr earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Iowa, and has been teaching politics and international studies at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa since 2012. He also writes at contrariwise.substack.com.
Not only did the worst consequences of lockdowns occur in the Global South, but lockdowns were pushed on the South from the North, through well-known strongarm tactics of neocolonialism that have consistently pushed neoliberalism, austerity, and impoverishment on the South for the last several decades.
