The atlantic piece is obviously extremely tendentious, because everything the atlantic prints is extremely tendentious; it's a rag that puts out a very narrow, specific viewpoint.
There is, of course, enormous uncertainty surrounding everything having to do with covid (and anyone claiming that we know for sure how any given public health policy would go is lying to you) but for the atlantic it's important to promote one particular viewpoint in all things
It's honestly just noise and no signal. The choice of sources an examples is laser targeted to promote a specific point, to claim there is a correct "scientific" level of worry to have
In reality of course people have different levels of concern partly because they have different valuations of what's important to them and how they feel about the ethics of the situation
anyway this is all kind of a waste of time. the thrust of the article is that you should be exactly as worried about covid as the atlantic editorial board is, which is obviously a stupid point of view
as always I wish every atlantic staff writer a very pleasant get a real job
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