Nanny state? After the mess here in Texas, I'd give my right arm to live in one
The first flurries came on Valentineâs Day, a steady, wispy snowfall, like a socially distanced blizzard. A brutal wave of Covid-19 had just crested in the college town of Denton, about 60km north of Dallas, in Texas. Itâs a good thing my daughters, Grace, who is 12, and Lydia, who is nine, study remotely, because we were inundated with âCovid on campusâ emails all winter, single-case notifications eventually snowballing into aggregated reports of âa few individualsâ. The fatalistic Texan approach to the pandemic was summed up by a porter I interviewed outside...
Source: irishtimes.com