I went down into the memory hole for @CityJournal and dug it all up and examined what it means. city-journal.org/press-coverage…
A month later, California put its 40 million residents under quarantine.
Then, as now, public-health officials failed, and a number of journalists acted as though their responsibility was less to inform than to mock and chasten an ignorant public.
And media outlets and officials formerly united in the need for social distancing rushed to support them.
From the WHO, from politicians, from the media there has been no mea culpa.
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