James Gibney, Columnist

Endemic Does Not Spell R-E-L-I-E-F

Getting on with our lives doesn’t mean that the fight against the virus should wind down.

January 25, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

James Gibney is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion. Previously an editor at the Atlantic, the New York Times, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy and the New Republic, he was also in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1989 to 1997 in India, Japan and Washington.

This will still happen when Covid is endemic.
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“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on,” says the nameless, immobile protagonist at the end of Samuel Beckett’s “The Unnamable.” Two years into Covid-19 and its implacable march through the Greek alphabet, many of us can relate. Heck, if Beckett were still alive, the pandemic might have foddered another obscurantist novel or play.