Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the almost unimaginable loss of life, rationality has been among America’s greatest casualties.
Thus, the proliferation of those who think doctors and nurses are the ones killing patients brought to the ICU, rather than COVID being the culprit for that.
Or those who believe taking horse de-wormer and inhaling hydrogen peroxide is better for attacking the virus than anything a hospital might do.
This lack of critical thought is also evident in the way some understand (or, more to the point, fail to understand) the data on COVID deaths.
To wit, several persons who have recently written to me insisting the claims about COVID disproportionately killing Black people and other folks of color are false.
As they explained it, those who push a racial disparity narrative do so only to besmirch the good name of America (and white people in particular) for letting it happen.
But as with all things, they’re wrong.
