It’s Time to Start Policing Social Gatherings for COVID Rule-Breakers
MISSING THE MARK
We know who is spreading COVID-19 the most, and how they’re doing it. So why aren’t we doing anything about it?
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We’re living in the age of pandemic theater.
Drastic measures are clearly needed to stop hospitals in cities across America from running out of beds for COVID-19 patients—including in my Brooklyn neighborhood, where the ICU down the street is 120 percent full.
Yet current policies are, like security theater, a form of “pandemic theater” that, for all the pain they are causing, are missing the most dangerous virus-spreading activities, and the populations engaging in them.
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