Will the Legacy of the Pandemic Be Germophobia?

David Zweig
3 min readApr 1, 2021

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If Some Public Health Officials Have Their Way, the Answer is Yes

One of the main themes of my forthcoming book about schools during the pandemic is to question why certain officials, often those with infectious diseases expertise, were anointed The Deciders for how all of American civilization should conduct itself. Maximum mitigation of…

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David Zweig

Author of INVISIBLES. Forthcoming: AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION (2022), and MERELY PLAYERS (2023?). I write for @NYMag @TheAtlantic @NYTimes @Wired