Covid Tyrants Were Perpetrators, Not Victims

Five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no shortage of analysis personifying the virus as the villain.

Ruben Navarrette : But painting public health leaders as innocent bystanders and Covid as the boogeyman is deceitful historical revisionism.

He says it’s common for the media to bemoan Americans ’ diminishing trust in “science” and public health guidance — as if the virus itself is responsible.

But Covid didn’t order lockdowns and issue stay-at-home orders, he says.

Julian Zelizer : Health officials vilified anyone who didn't abide by their ever-changing guidelines.

Zelizer says Americans have not responded by expressing credulous faith in the public health “expert” class (or the corporate media) He says Americans ’ lack of confidence in public health officials — or even in scientists — doesn’t mean lack of trust in science.

If these tyrants want to regain the trust of the American people, they should start by refusing to embrace totalitarianism.