The Error of Fighting a Public Health War With Medical Weapons

Here’s the wild part, the most 2020 thing about 2020: That schism—that conflict between public health and private well-being, between personal liberties and communal gain—is as old as pandemics. The germ of the idea was, in fact, the idea of the germ. In the mid-1800s, physicians and scientists were starting to come around to the […]