Have you been experiencing unwarranted optimism about the Covid-19 epidemic? Altogether too cheerful, are you? I just read an 'antidote' to your cheeriness at The Atlantic.
A policy wonk with the unlikely name of Yascha Mounk writes that the pandemic outlook is gloomy. Mounk concludes we are far from herd immunity, have no useful treatments, no vaccine in sight, and our government is not being helpful.
He writes we have next-to-no chance of contact tracing (I agree) unlike smaller, more regimented societies. Like most leftists, he appears to regret our unwillingness to be surveilled, to do what our 'betters' believe we should. If only we had the hive mentality ... for which lack I thank Heavens.
