Covid-2019 - 2022-12-13

Today in "Recommended Reading," an interesting high-level think-piece on the concept of "pandemicism." It's a particular mindset that elevates potential mortality from communicable diseases to a place of primacy versus all other possible causes, driving a uniquely intense frenzy of fear and concern out of all proportion to the actual dimensions of the threat (as opposed to any other). The author suggests multiple possible explanations, including pecuniary self-interest. Nah. Couldn't be. Saint-like institutions like NIAID, WHO and the Wuhan Virological Laboratory would never be tainted with self-interest. Would they?