“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.” This quote is from the finale of the searing TV show, Chernobyl. Here it references the initial denial and obfuscation of reality by authorities when faced with the seemingly impossible situation of a nuclear meltdown. This dark principle of human crisis management echoes back and forward through the ages. Covid-19 is a contemporary version. For the same reason Leo Varadkar was able to state with confidence that there will be a Covid-19 surge before it happened, I will state with confidence that there…

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