A Mount Rushmore of bad takes this year from the WSJ opinion section. 
How it started. How it's going.
About 200,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in the period between WSJ publishing Mike Pence's op-ed saying the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus and Scott Atlas' op-ed saying the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus.
"Yet empirical data from the U.S., Europe and Japan show that lockdowns don’t eliminate the virus and don’t stop the virus from spreading" is a real sentence in that op-ed from a guy who helped run the WH coronavirus response because the president liked his Fox hits.
A lot of people died because of this, but Atlas' stature within right-wing media and conservative think-tankery has only improved. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
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