The Unnerving Trip Through the Pandemic Looking Glass

CNN's John Sutter looks back at the first months of the 2009-10 flu pandemic. The media was still reassuring the public even telling us to worry more about the flu. As mayors and governors contemplated school closings and shelter and place rules, they often talked about public panic as a greater threat than the virus. Donald Trump hadn't yet made the right Totally indifferent pandemic anxiety was probably greatest among the class of Silicon Valley conservatives who later became among the loudest critics of mitigation policies.