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WCOVID ,Liberals are recognizing they made mistakes.
-------- only barely---- not really admitting!

from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/pandemic-liberal-reckoning/682157/

hy the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided
Liberals are recognizing they made mistakes. Conservatives are making
fun of them for that.

By Jonathan Chait

The recent fifth anniversary of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic
put the difference between the contemporary right and left on stark
display. Liberals have engaged in searching self-reflection—on school closings, the lab-leak hypothesis, the political aftereffects, and other unanticipated lessons. Conservatives have used the occasion to engage in
a round of self-congratulations and taunting of the libs.

Recently, the New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci wrote a column criticizing scientific institutions for misleading the public over the possibility that COVID-19 had escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
National Review’s Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote a gloating response,
which generally typified the right-wing mood on this issue. It included
this astonishing passage: “Five years later, the very people who misled
us about the pandemic are starting to make embarrassing admissions.”

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