Random Thoughts

[Angrboda]

Visit the administration’s new covid website. I dare you.

A new website launched last week, covid.gov, and even though an editor once told me that writers should never instruct readers to “drop everything and look at this,” because then readers might never return to their articles, I must now ask you to drop everything and go look at this, and I will wait for you.

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So I almost left all of this alone. Except, after visiting “LAB LEAK: THE TRUE ORIGINS OF Covid-19” — after sending it to a couple of people and having a good chuckle — I learned that covid.gov was not a Trump original, like DOGE.gov or MelaniaTrump.com. Rather, it was a complete overhaul of a previous government website, which was originally created to provide resources and information — how to get a free coronavirus test; what warning signs to look for regarding long covid — for a terrified public. As recently as April 1, the homepage contained guidance about which populations would most benefit from a vaccine booster.