In what we can now see was a profound overreaction, these curtailments of Americans' liberties were made in the name of shielding them from a virus whose effects-for most people, most of the time-resembled a common cold.
I still care little about whether I (again) catch Covid, but I now think there was something self-indulgent, narcissistic, even Epicurean about my longing for the fruits of our consumerist, materialistic society.
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