Early in 2020, shocked citizens and social scientists predicted the widespread imposition of extreme “non-pharmaceutical interventions” in response to COVID would prove to have horrible and costly human and economic trade-offs — turns out they were right.
The election of Joe Biden in 2020 made liberals giddy with delight. They had sent Bad Orange Man packing, and now it was time to focus on issues like ‘voting rights,’ infrastructure, and police reform.