It’s easy to forget that a little over five years ago U.S. schools were closed, public events were canceled, dining inside restaurants was illegal, the operation of all manner of businesses was deemed illegal, socializing among humans was demonized as the sign of a “super spreader” of the novel coronavirus, and Americans were broadly confined to their homes since contact with others was presumed dangerous, and possibly lethal by the experts. Some (including your reviewer) pushed back against this hideous taking of freedom, economic viability, and yes, suffocation of useful knowledge for how to deal with a virus, but for the most part Americans accepted their new, locked down to varying degrees existence.
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