Colin Dickey: The Upside Of COVID Hygiene Theater

Eh...this author has a good attitude, IMO. And it's an idea worth saying, I guess. And it has the virtue of trying to put an optimistic spin on something bad: empty and often politicized COVID hygiene theatrics, as you can discern from the title. This is a general form of argument sometimes used to make excuses for some religious rituals. Anyway, I don't buy it. I'm less reflexively hostile to such arguments than I used to be...but I'm just not sympathetic to them. Needless to say, I could be wrong.