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Managing editor at @AmerCompass, @Commonplc. Link to my Substack about the media, @Holden_Court, is below. Maker of 🧵threads🧵
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A COVID Autopsy, Part 4: ‘Social Distancing Informants Have Their Eyes on You’

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By Drew Holden 
| Substack
One key element of COVID that I think people may be starting to forget – particularly those on the delivering end – is just how much vitriol and rage marked this period. Anyone who suggested that maybe our response to the virus went overboard, or that maybe we were being a bit too dogmatic about the application of masking (now a sacred rite), lockdowns, and social distancing (what good people did), weren’t just a heretic, but a social threat.
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A COVID Autopsy, Part 3: ‘Scientists Debunk Lab Accident Theory Of Pandemic Emergence’

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By Drew Holden 
| Substack
But for Wednesday’s whistleblower accusations of a coverup, you may have already forgotten the hotly contested debate about COVID’s origin. From early in the pandemic, there were two competing theories about where the virus came from. The first was zoonotic, the dominant theory among the expert class early in the pandemic, which held that COVID migrated from animals to humans, likely at the type of illegal wet market with live animals for sale common in many areas of China.
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A COVID Autopsy, Part 2: ‘Should coronavirus lock down protesters waive their medical care? Some medical ethicists think so’

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By Drew Holden 
| Substack
Many people see the initial COVID lockdown as the starting gun for the country’s descent into a new kind of madness. But the fight over when and how to reopen, I think, was truly what etched the new battle lines into our collective national consciousness, what planted the fissures that would then spread and grow in our country’s social fabric. And I’m worried we’re already starting to forget just how bad what happened was.
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