14 June 20
The Virus Will Win
Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic
Mounk writes: "Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over. It certainly is not."
Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic
Mounk writes: "Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over. It certainly is not."
EXCERPT:
For the rest of us, the order of the day was simply to stay at home and slow the spread. It was a modest task, which made it all the more galling that some people fell short. But this nitpick obscures how many people did do what they could to get us all through the crisis: They checked in with their relatives and cooked for the elderly. They took to their balconies to thank health-care workers or sang songs to cheer up the neighbors. By and large, they stayed at home and slowed the spread.
Thanks to the effort of millions of people, we were close to a great success story. But because of the failures of Trump and Chauvin, of the CDC and the WHO, of public-health experts and Fox News hosts, we are, instead, likely to give up—and tolerate that hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens will die needless deaths.
Pandemics reveal the true state of a society. Ours has come up badly wanting.
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