Over the last year, the coronavirus has caused untold misery and destruction. Over
three million people are dead. Families have been forever destroyed and businesses have been wrecked by a cruel and unrelenting virus. But that hasn’t stopped a stunningly tone deaf news media from lecturing Americans about the environmental “silver lining” and “gift” of Covid-19. As the world marks Earth Day 2021, it’s worth remembering just how out of touch reporters sound when they put a happy face on a global killer of humans.
It was early on in the pandemic, March 19, 2020, that journalist Vladimir Duthiers first speculated on