Tag: hygiene theater
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Covid-19, hygiene theater, and the United States of Amnesia
Hygiene theater is not the—or even a—reason Covid-19 has hurt and killed so many Americans. The virus was novel and vicious, our government (like others) responded incompetently. Experts blundered, then battled their organizations’ mishaps. Yet even though hygiene theater may have had a negligible effect on disease prevention, it continuously wasted time and resources and, in the process, exposed the rotten pathology of American…
Nathan Schiller 