Commentary
A new variant, new boosters, new mandates, new exhortations to mask up and stay safe. Will it ever end? Not if the New York Times gets its way.
The politicization of disease was pretty much verboten throughout most of the 20th century. Public-health wisdom strongly recommended against it. It serves no one. It drives stigmatization and division and drives irrational behavior that is inconsistent with health in general. In the polio scares of the early 1940s, for example, the predecessor to the March of Dimes declined to enlist the public help of President Franklin D. Roosevelt precisely to keep politics out of it….