Bari Weiss - Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos

When I am asked to show my vaccine card at a bar—even though that says nothing about whether or not I’m actively transmitting Covid—I want to laugh.

When I eat at a restaurant where the diners are unmasked but the staff are forced to don stormtrooper headgear and gloves, I wonder if people realize what this looks like.

Those of you reading this in states like Florida and Texas are probably patting yourself on the backs for your wise life choices.

But for many of us in America, our lives are still being controlled by the pandemic.
And the irrationality of the policies and conversations around Covid—
irrationality that comes from our public health authorities,
from our schools and our workplaces,
from our local governments and our media—
is making skeptics out of even the most compliant.