Authored by Robert Blumen via The Brownstone Institute,
The Guardian on Jan 15, 2023 published the most perfect piece of new normal nostalgia that ever was or could be: Coronavirus: ‘People aren’t taking this seriously’: experts say US Covid surge is big risk by Melody Schreiber.
This piece may be studied as a Platonic Form.
Nothing could more perfectly demonstrate the inability of the covid fear porn publishers to let go of the narrative.
If the author didn’t have her own website, I would have attributed the piece to an instance of ChatGPT trained on every Guardian and New York Times article from the past three years.
The writer employs every single discredited covid trope at least once.
I will list a few of the best, here. To cover them all I would have to quote the entire article and that would violate the Fair Use Doctrine.
I have chosen a tabular form with a quote alongside the trope that it is derived from:
My favorite part of the piece is, “Yet because of poor messaging from officials, many people may not even realize the US is experiencing a surge.”
I am one of those many people who did not know this.