Adventures in Coronavirus Bureaucracy

Notes on a mind-boggling, humanity-questioning, Kafka-flecked visit back home

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Travellers pass a sign for a COVID-19 test centre at Heathrow Airport, London, Britain, February 13, 2021.

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Having gone nearly two years without seeing my English family, I was naturally willing to brave whatever deluge of paperwork and intrusion was necessary in order to hop across the pond to spend a few days with them.

No amount of brazen you-gotta-do-what-you-gotta-do determination had quite prepared me for the labyrinth I was about enter.

Charles C. W. Cooke

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior editor at National Review and the host of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.

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