Society’s Long Covid

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. The result is a durable crisis in American civic life… For millions of Americans, distrust feels like the most rational state.”
– “We Were Wrong About What Happened to America in 2020,” The NY Times Guest Essay [🎁 Gift Link]

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