Members Only #251 – We Got Five Years of Covid Fury

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Members Only #251 – We Got Five Years of Covid Fury

A cassingle reading of, and commentary about, Jeff Blehar’s “I Can Only Look Back in Anger”

Matt Welch

Mar 13, 2025

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I was very moved by friend & past guest Jeff Blehar’s Covid anniversary piece, so … I just read it out loud. And added related commentary for paying subscribers. Some links alluded to therein, in rough order of reference:

* Reason Roundtable Covid look-back

* Related Twitter thread

* “The Great COVID Rupture: Three years after ‘15 days to slow the spread,’…

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