Over the weekend, I disputed Atlantic staff writer Jonathan Chait’s contention that the Left has been engaging in genuine introspection and contrition about the mistakes it made in fanatically supporting the fallacious public-health conventional wisdom — the need for lockdowns, the impossibility of a lab-leak origin of Covid-19, the utility of masks, etc. — of the Covid era.
Not only does Chait overstate “the case for leftist introspection,” I wrote; he also outright ignores that some, such as Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, are still “attempting to alter history concerning Covid, even five years later” by denying their own culpability for the Covid response.
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