Going Herd

NY Dispatch Day 169: Although the Republican National Convention tried to convince the public otherwise, the COVID-19 pandemic is not over and the president did not take decisive action when there was still a possibility of controlling the spread. The president and his loyal media outlets minimized the impact, claimed it was a Democratic hoax, that it would magically disappear, and promoted untested or dangerous “cures” including hydroxychloroquine and oleander extract. They politicized wearing ...