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Charlie Pierce: This Pandemic Has Turned Our Historical Reaction to Epidemic Disease on Its Head

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Charlie Pierce: This Pandemic Has Turned Our Historical Reaction to Epidemic Disease on Its Head
Charlie Pierce Esquire

On the electric Twitter machine, the kidz have this “Shot…Chaser” meme thing that seems to be wildly popular. Last week, and you may have seen the video on the Intertoobz, a meeting of the county council of St. Louis County was set to discuss a new mask mandate for indoor public places and all public transportation. (As is the case generally in Missouri, Covid cases are spiking toward February levels again.) An obstreperous mob of ginned-up chronic cases made something of a shambles of the meeting, and it got even worse outside the meeting room.

Read the rest of Charlie Pierce’s piece at Esquire Politics