The Pandemic of COVID

There's good work too on the political front showing that societies where infectious disease prevalence is higher are also substantially more likely to have authoritarian political structures. The goal of public health has always worked to counteract that. We tell people it's not, you shouldn't moralize a disease. With HIV, we learned that lesson, I thought. Yet during the pandemic, public health authorities leaned into this. They leaned into the idea that someone who gets COVID has committed a sin. And they didn't say it out loud, but they acted that way. It's now, I said that there was a pandemic template. But that pandemic template is at odds with every other pandemic that