The Left’s Imaginary Covid ‘Reckoning’

Even when conservatives are right, they’re right in the wrong way, liberals appear to be saying.

AP/Ng Han Guan, file
Security personnel at the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology at Wuhan, China in 2021. AP/Ng Han Guan, file

When I first came across Jonathan Chait’s new Atlantic piece, “Why the Covid Reckoning Is So One-Sided,” I assumed the answer would be that Democrats had been the ones relentlessly and tragically wrong about virtually everything during the pandemic. No such luck.

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