{"id":15603,"date":"2024-10-29T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15603"},"modified":"2024-10-29T18:34:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T18:34:22","slug":"despite-covid-amnesia-the-pandemic-simmers-beneath-the-2024-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15603","title":{"rendered":"Despite Covid \u2018Amnesia,\u2019 the Pandemic Simmers Beneath the 2024 Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dueling Trump and Harris rallies outside Atlanta offer a case study in how anger and anxiety over Covid-19, a proxy for the larger debate over trust in government, have shaped the 2024 race.<\/p>\n

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked onstage after a parade of pyrotechnics at former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s rally outside Atlanta last week and immediately invoked a name that became a bugaboo of the right and a subject of wild conspiracy theories during the coronavirus pandemic: Bill Gates.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gates, Mr. Kennedy informed the crowd<\/a>, had \u201cbeen indicted in the Netherlands for lying to the public about the Covid-19 vaccine.\u201d Thousands of red-hatted Trump backers roared their approval. In fact, there had been no indictment; according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf<\/a>, a judge in the Netherlands ruled that a civil suit accusing Mr. Gates of \u201cvaccination damage\u201d may go forward.<\/p>\n

The next night, at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in a different Atlanta suburb, former President Barack Obama blamed Mr. Trump for thousands of coronavirus deaths. More Americans would be alive today, he said, \u201cif we had had a competent administration\u201d that was \u201ctrying to do things better instead of talking about injecting bleach into your arm.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the most divisive American presidential race in recent history barrels toward a close, many Americans have developed what Wendy Parmet, an expert in public health law at Northeastern University, calls \u201camnesia\u201d about the coronavirus pandemic. The economy, immigration, abortion and threats to democracy now top the list of voters\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But anger and anxiety about Covid-19 are woven into all those issues, simmering underneath as a proxy for the larger debate over trust in government that has shaped the 2024 race.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s dueling rallies in Atlanta, home to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offer a case study in the lingering effects of the pandemic on American politics. They tell the story of two Americas, red and blue.<\/p>\n

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Dueling Trump and Harris rallies outside Atlanta offer a case study in how anger and anxiety over Covid-19, a proxy for the larger debate over trust in government, have shaped the 2024 race.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked onstage after a parade of pyrotechnics at former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s rally outside Atlanta last week and immediately invoked a name that became a bugaboo of the right and a subject of wild conspiracy theories during the coronavirus pandemic: Bill Gates.Mr. Gates, Mr. Kennedy informed the crowd, had \u201cbeen indicted in the Netherlands for lying to the public about the Covid-19 vaccine.\u201d Thousands of red-hatted Trump backers roared their approval. In fact, there had been no indictment; according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, a judge in the Netherlands ruled that a civil suit accusing Mr. Gates of \u201cvaccination damage\u201d may go forward.The next night, at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in a different Atlanta suburb, former President Barack Obama blamed Mr. Trump for thousands of coronavirus deaths. More Americans would be alive today, he said, \u201cif we had had a competent administration\u201d that was \u201ctrying to do things better instead of talking about injecting bleach into your arm.\u201dAs the most divisive American presidential race in recent history barrels toward a close, many Americans have developed what Wendy Parmet, an expert in public health law at Northeastern University, calls \u201camnesia\u201d about the coronavirus pandemic. The economy, immigration, abortion and threats to democracy now top the list of voters\u2019 concerns.But anger and anxiety about Covid-19 are woven into all those issues, simmering underneath as a proxy for the larger debate over trust in government that has shaped the 2024 race.Last week\u2019s dueling rallies in Atlanta, home to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offer a case study in the lingering effects of the pandemic on American politics. They tell the story of two Americas, red and blue.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15605,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15606,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15603\/revisions\/15606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}