29
Dec
2022 was bad, but it could have been worse. This essay is part of a end of year series looking at the silver linings.We enter 2022 in a state of great anxiety about what Covid-19 would do next. While the vaccines offered vital relief, it was unclear whether they would hold up against the new variants and whether we would not return to mass lockdowns soon.Although none of the worst case scenarios happened last year, what happened was a disaster and an ongoing global tragedy.But the novel coronavirus did not fulfill our worst nightmares: no doomsday variant emerged to render…
