Origin of the Specious
Last week the House of Representatives held a hearing on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. Because Republicans are now in charge of the House, the door was open to bad faith science, wild speculation, utter nonsense, and even a science writer widely criticized for misusing scientific data to support racist sociology.
We also happened to pass the third anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the Covid-19 pandemic. Given the widening push by public officials and big business, you might think the pandemic is over. Yet 300 people die of the virus a day in the United States. That’s 3,000 every ten days. It adds up. The vast majority of the victims are over 65 or disabled, while the poor, people of color, especially Native Americans, are still feeling the bite. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say these people are being swept under the rug in our haste to reclaim a sense of “normalcy.” There are government programs to help them, underfunded and understaffed they may be, enough so to undercut their best efforts.
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