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With Pandemic, Societal Hallucination Yields Real Misery

With Pandemic, Societal Hallucination Yields Real Misery
A store stands closed near Wall Street as the CCP virus keeps financial markets and businesses mostly closed in New York City, N.Y., on May 8, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Roger Kimball
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Just a few more thoughts about the CCP virus, aka the Wuhan flu or (for people who like scary acronyms) COVID-19. I am not sure we can yet say that the dust has settled, but the building that is our society has assuredly collapsed and the air is thick with hysteria.
Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
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