14 April

What those who have been determined to portray Covid as a ‘sniffle’ have done to millions of human beings kicks you right in the guts when you read this. Notice we never hear the details of individuals who die of Covid? Another thing the ‘sniffle’ crowd do deliberately, to allow their relentless minimisation of the scale of the tragedy. We don’t even report deaths now, let alone hear the names of those who die or their stories. As Yong says, we’re ‘disenfranchising grief’. The live with the virus crowd have removed the ability of people impacted by this tragedy to even have a meaning for what’s happened to them. All they hear is to ‘get back to normal’. It makes a joke of their tragedy.