A note on the lack of comparisons for the pandemic

From Casualties, the print-magazine title for a review by Peter Schjeldahl in the 12/02/19 New Yorker of a PS1 art exhibition called Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars, 19912011:

When will we stop obsessing about our gimmickry of communication and just communicate as best we can? Inexplicably, to me, the shows catalogue features a reprint of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillards flashy, repellently foolish essay of 1991, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, which sashays past the actuality...