Anti-Before-COVID-Nostalgia announcement: Americans love to mark time by disasters without stopping long (if at all) to ask “why did that terrible thing happen anyway?”
2. In fact if you count war as a disaster—which I definitely do—most of the US history timeline is just demarcating one disaster from another. You might think we’d be better at investigation, forensics, historical thinking.
3. I’m thinking about time and disaster a lot because the will-to-closure on COVID is strong. And it’s heartbreaking. The “Before COVID” is how we got here.
4. I mean Before COVID is only post-Katrina if you ask me. Just at scale. The continuity is inequality and a de-skilled government. Things that can, by the way, be changed. /end
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