Americans refuse to learn the one lesson that could help curb Covid.
Alongside the severe outcomes of acute illness, we’re seeing a steady emergence of disturbing data on thethat can occur even if the initial illness is only mild. Thus, wildly rampant mild disease is difficult to celebrate. And metrics earlier believed to herald the end of the pandemic phase of Covid, such as its predictability, are not yet in sight.
First, dismissing the pandemic is callous dismissal of those most affected. Every time we peel back protections against Covid and other infectious diseases, we leave people performingalong with racial and ethnic minority populations, the elderly, and those who are disabled, immunocompromised or poor to bear the largest burden of disease and death, while having the least amount of sick leave, access to health care and therapies, and financial reserve to buffer a period of illness.
“Viruses just keep busting the myth that we're discreet beings, that we're not connected to each other,” sociologist and journalist Steven Thrasher told me in a phone call earlier this summer. “They keep reminding us that we're not alone in this. Therefore we can't act for our self-interest. We have to act in an interdependent way.”
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