Back in 2014, American stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco had a comedy special entitled “Aren’t you embarrassed?” And unbeknownst to himself at the time, that title sums up the post-Covid era perfectly – it is all now, in a word, embarrassing.
In addition to being destructive, divisive, and pointless, as our meatball-eating friends in no-lockdown Sweden showed us, the whole pandemic period was also just quite humiliating for most governments the world over.
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