The Unbelievers (Updated) 0
In The Kansas City Star, Melinda Henneberger reports on a small town in the Missouri countryside where most of the residents have chosen to disregard the danger of infection in these viral times. Many of them seem to have bought the herd immunity fairy tale that, if enough people get sick (lots of whom will die, but that part gets left out of the fairy tale version), somehow the threat will magically go away. Here’s a bit:
We are a society of stupid.
Addendum:
Headline of the day: Virus cases reach 7 million in US amid spike in heartland, home to anti-mask sentiments
