The thing I got most wrong about the pandemic

(So far.)

We’ve all made mistakes during the pandemic: from Fauci pooh-poohing masks in the spring of 2020 to Alex Ber*nson being wrong about—well, basically everything. I’ve made plenty of errors along the way (an early preference for handwashing over facemasks was one of them). But one of my earliest and wrongest assumptions has stuck with me for over a year, a…