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"There is only this way that we have established over the months of performing together, and what it is congruent with isn't 'ourselves' but past performances -- we're has-beens at heart, routinely trotting out the old, old act."
-- Philip Roth,
The Counterlife
The counterfactual is a term for what would have happened if not for some intervention, action, or policy. Here, I want to explore the COVID-19 counterlife. What would have happened if. Obviously, this is an act of imagination, but anchored by over 10 years of studying science, medicine, and policy, and how people respond.
So, what would have happened if...