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Looking Back to Look Forward: COVID-19 Faith Reflections on 2020-2021 NPR’s one-year retrospective headline read “March 11, 2020: The Day Everything Changed.” The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that day in 2020 that “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels […]
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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Of course, the putative anniversary was marked by a Presidential address: “Transcript: Joe Biden delivers remarks on 1-year anniversary of pandemic” (ABC). However, in this post I won’t be pulling on my yellow waders to read it; rather, I’ll focus on how convenient the March 11 is for the Professional-Managerial Class (PMC) that is so busily constructing this narrative for us, in the persons of writers at the New York Times, WaPo, People, Buzzfeed, ABC, NBC, and NBC, among others.
Why March 11? Well, because an authority (WHO, or, if you like, the NBA) ruled that Covid was a pandemic; the stories linked to above contain many examples of people not treating Covid seriously until such an authority told them to do so. Needless to say, at NC we took a different approach.