It’s up to the rest of us now

Our leaders have failed us on Covid-19. But more of us can get through it if we work together.

Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan Myerson Katz.

So it’s come to this, whatever this will turn out to be. The incompetence. The greed. The Faustian bargains to adopt and acquiesce to rule by the worst of us in exchange for the briefest sniffs of worldly power and access—all of that has led us to this moment, in which we all collec…