Dr. Richard Horton’s “The COVID-19 Catastrophe” tells the politically correct story of the pandemic.
It is clear to everyone that the world of COVID-19 into which we have been hurled will become a turning point in our history. I started writing for this august publication about COVID in early March 2020, as the pandemic hit a nursing home within walking distance of my house. Something big was happening. We could feel it in our bones.
It is therefore inevitable that we would start logging the history of this pandemic before the pandemic is even over. In the first few months, it seemed to me that this turning point would bring us together as a nation and perhaps as a global community. But as the months went on, it became clear that there were a set of people who sensed opportunity in the air. This moment of history was not, to them, a moment to heal and unite, but a moment of leverage in which we can craft the right narrative to bend the curve of history when it is most pliable.
