Opinion | How Covid Changed America in 2020 - The New York Times - 0 views
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It’s only now becoming clear how little we understood what the United States experienced during that unforgettable year and how deeply it shaped us
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I’ve come to think of our current condition as a kind of long Covid, a social disease that intensified a range of chronic problems and instilled the belief that the institutions we’d been taught to rely on are unworthy of our trust
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On a wide range of outcomes, including many that were less visible at the time, this country fared much worse during the Covid pandemic than comparable nations did. Distrust, division and disorganized leadership contributed to the scale of our negative health outcomes.
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