My favorite Covid counterfactuals
What if Trump had followed his own guidelines?
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Ross Douthat published a couple of speculative columns on Covid Counterfactuals. As someone who loves alternate history as a genre and also took a whole very serious philosophy class about the importance of counterfactual analysis for thinking about history, I like this type of column.
But Douthat left on the table my two favorite counterfactuals, both …