This was written by a friend of my 1st Cousin on COVID 19
There is some really good information here. It could the best article on the subject I have read.
Philip Alcabes trained as an infectious-disease epidemiologist and has been writing about health and illness for the Scholar since 2004. He is a professor of public health at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
"Every epidemic is theater, a drama written by the powerful for the sake of the unsuspecting. AIDS became a morality tale of innocence and sin. Outbreaks of Ebola became stories of strange tribal customs and feckless governments. Measles outbreaks become the fault of a delusional but highly organized “anti-vaxxer” movement. What’s unusual about the outbreak of COVID-19 is that the story isn’t being told by the powerful. The powerful are just consumers here, responders, sometimes influencers, salespeople of a certain frightened view. But the story of COVID-19—a surrealist masterpiece—masked citizens, ubiquitous squeeze bottles of Purell, conspiracy theories, bravado, insouciance, boredom, and anxiety—is taking shape purely out of information."
https://theamericanscholar.org/covid-19-a-primer/?fbclid=IwAR3oc7m0j34ENzQAzWoS_bpkBs23tEZsEe7BWCzDMzRgTV-wpbuH7e9hYAc#.XmlxIajYq03