The Dirty War over Covid

Covidianism is dead. Americans have moved on from pandemic restrictions, Dr. Fauci is retiring, the CDC lies prostrate. The last pockets of masking-and-distancing fighters have been exiled to exotic reaches of blue jungles.

And all around us we see wins for those who raged against the pandemic machine. Anger over school closures helped propel Republican Glenn Youngkin to his surprise win of the Virginia governorship. The same backlash booted three school-board members in, of all places, San Francisco. It may yet help the GOP in the midterms. Americans now tolerate thousands of viral deaths every week as an acceptable cost of normalcy, just as skeptics said we should.

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Ari Schulman

Ari Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis, a journal of technology and society.

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Covidianism is dead. Americans have moved on from pandemic restrictions, Dr. Fauci is retiring, the CDC lies prostrate. The last pockets of masking-and-distancing fighters have been exiled to exotic reaches of blue jungles.

And all around us we see wins for those who raged against the pandemic machine. Anger over school closures helped propel Republican Glenn Youngkin to his surprise win of the Virginia governorship. The same backlash booted three school-board members in, of all places, San Francisco. It may yet help the GOP in the midterms. Americans now tolerate thousands of viral deaths every week as an acceptable cost of normalcy, just as skeptics said we should.