This piece is not meant to dissuade anyone from doing what makes them feel safe, and I am not a medical professional. Nor am I giving medical advice-obviously. I’m not an expert, but like everyone else I am forced to confront a smorgasbord of information about the pandemic, and the way people around me are reacting to it, and make some sort of sense out of it. Some of those reactions I find concerning, and not just those of anti-vaxxers and Covid-denialists. What I am trying to do in this essay is decouple the natural phenomenon of COVID-19 from a political narrative, to be more easily able to avoid confusion between the two, and think practically about both.
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