Covid-2019 - 2021-08-29

In "Recommended Reading," an interesting article from today's New York Times, showing how difficult it is for elite opinion-shapers to process the new public mood about Covid. After months of snarling put-downs of the vaccine-hesitant, this is a sympathetic story. The Times doesn't approve when Texans say this -- but when elite European tennis players say it, the risk-return thinking seems less neanderthal: "I'm not very scared of Covid, actually... My basic philosophy is: 'If you’re afraid of it, you get vaccinated; if not, no.' It's still a choice." That's a word -- choice! -- that we haven't heard from the Times in quite a while.