> I agree that the pandemic is probably not a root cause: I think the global reaction to the pandemic could have a related root cause I keep seeing the argumen

> I agree that the pandemic is probably not a root cause: I think the global reaction to the pandemic could have a related root cause I keep seeing the argument that the pandemic and the response to it are distinctly separate phenomenon. They are not. The pandemic response is explicitly part and parcel of the pandemic, you don’t have a pandemic without a response, and there’s no response without a pandemic. This is not hard to grasp.