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cord-316063-9bg2dm8e	Morgan, Marcus	Why meaning-making matters: the case of the UK Government’s COVID-19 response	2020-10-15		.txt	text/plain	25744	1020	52	The paper also offers more specific contributions to cultural sociology by showing why social performance theory needs to consider the effects of casting non-human actors in social dramas, how metaphor forms a powerful tool of political action through simplifying and shaping complex realities, and how casting can shift responsibility and redefine the meaning of emotionally charged events such as human death. On 28th February, the first death of a British national occurred on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, and the Sunday Times reported that around the same time Dominic Cummings (Johnson's Chief Advisor, and former director of the successful Vote Leave campaign) had 'outlined the government's strategy' for the UK's national response to the virus 'at a private engagement', quoting those present as claiming that it was 'herd immunity, protect the economy, and if that means some pensioners die, too bad' (Shipman and Wheeler 2020) .	./cache/cord-316063-9bg2dm8e.txt	./txt/cord-316063-9bg2dm8e.txt