CNN does its “heroes” thing every year and this year’s nominees for “most inspiring moment” reminds me that the early days of the COVID crisis featured solidarity that has dropped away. Back in the spring people were staying at home and singing out of their windows aevery night — all over the world.
I’m pretty sure that sort of collective outpouring would have worn off over time anyway. But honestly, Trump made it all so much worse with his insistence that we could just open businesses without containing the virus. His refusal to wear a mask alone (in order not to mess up his hair and make-up) has caused half the country to become spreaders and kill a bunch of people who didn’t have to die.
But there was a moment when everyone seemed to come together. We could have built on that to combat the virus. And he wrecked it.