Science Lessons for the Next Pandemic

[mainer]

This is the money quote. It's what the pandemic taught me about our country, and about Americans, and it's depressing.

If you are a person who thinks that you have a right not to wear a mask, that philosophy cascades: I couldn’t give a darn about the cashier in the supermarket or the train driver because I don’t care about anyone. I will go into the bar, and I will do what I will do.

This pandemic has shown us who we are, at a level of clarity that is shocking to most people. It’s hard to imagine there are that many people in our country who really don’t care about others. That is the scariest thing, it takes your breath away and you can diagnose everything else that is happening in our society through that lens. That you could tolerate 500,000 deaths in less than a year is incomprehensible to me, that we are a nation that is so callous.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/15/science/lessons-for-the-next-pandemic.html

[NewHendoLib]

1. this pandemic lays bare the fraud of libertarianism.

[lagomorph777]

2. Sociology will have a lot of work to do, figuring out the Trumpocalypse.

[miyazaki]

3. kick for later.

thanks.