I've recently recovered from Covid, and I wouldn't want my worst enemy to have even a touch of it, much less die from it; nor would I ever mock anyone's health struggles.

But the U.S., and the world generally (with some few exceptions in particular countries), has mishandled a straightforward public health situation in a catastrophic way, with the result that the public is *more* ignorant about how to keep safe from Covid than they were at the beginning of the pandemic.