In 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 gave us a stark, terrifying, but very valuable lesson in how thin our collective values are once push comes to shove. Within WEEKS after lockdowns started, the op-ed class repeatedly suggested that
We should suspend child labor laws (they claimed, incorrectly, that children weren't harmed by COVID)
The elderly have already lived long enough and should be willing to die now to help the economy.
The weak and compromised should be regarded as expendable.
