"Reality Check"

This is from the Washington Post's July 17  "Trending Now" e-mail:  "In this summer of covid freedom, disease experts warn: 'The world needs a reality check’. Covid-19 is surging again even as many people enjoy a freewheeling summer. Disease experts warn: ‘The world needs a reality check.’Scientists and public health officials fear that the world’s protracted battle against the coronavirus is at a delicate and dangerous moment, with infections growing in places with low vaccination rates even as many in the United States celebrate being freed from the darkest days of the crisis."

The W.H.O.'s epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove wrote that phrase, and she ought to know.  I feel as if everyone else is living it up in an alternative universe where there's never been a  pandemic at all, while experts like Dr Van Kerkhove help vindicate my own vigilance.

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