Coronavirus Articles I’m Tired of Rereading

1. This person who said coronavirus was fake got coronavirus and died.

I don’t want to read this as a snarky tragedy-in-two-acts quoting their social media conspiracies and then their covid obit.  I don’t want to read this as an impassioned hospital-bed or graveside plea for others to take covid19 seriously.

By now, what’s the point? If Americans weren’t convinced by the first or the first dozen or the first hundred of these stories, who’s the audience for these?

2. Another article on how masks really do prevent covid.

I don’t think there’s anyone left maskless because they haven’t yet been told that masks slow covid and protect our communities.  A group in NC are burning their masks for Murica and freedumbs. It’s not like they’re waiting for a peer-reviewed study on masks effectiveness, with a large sample size and accurate control group to start believing in science and wearing a mask.

Again, if Americans weren’t convinced by the first dozen announcements that masks slow the spread of covid, or weren’t willing to wear a mildly-annoying mask when we first heard it probably keeps our parents safer, why would this article be any different?

3. A group of X got together and now they all have covid.

We’ve been in quarantine since March and pretty much every day since then there’s been a story about a choir rehearsal or summer camp or football practice that met up and now everyone has covid.  At first, I was deeply saddened by these stories, it seemed to really remind me of life in the Before Times, and all the things we took for granted, but now I think, yes, we know coronavirus spreads in groups.