Help keep Salon independent

Topic: Lockdowns

President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

COVID amnesia puts US at risk

Heather Digby Parton
A man carries a mask as he walks along Roosevelt Avenue, which passes through the neighborhoods of Elmhurst, Corona and Jackson Heights, areas that witnessed some of the highest numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths on May 11, 2023 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Our unacknowledged trust

Lucian K. Truscott IV
People sing slogans while gathering on a street in Shanghai on November 27, 2022, where protests against China's zero-Covid policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

China and COVID-19: A lesson in extremes

Matthew Rozsa
Jay Bhattacharya and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet Elon Musk's favorite new doctor

Matthew Rozsa
Advertisement:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Fox spins lockdown study to attack masks

Nicole Karlis, Igor Derysh
Middle-School child having a remote schooling session with his teacher (Getty Images)

K-12 students regressed during lockdown

Matthew Rozsa
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

CO2 at highest in 3.6 million years

Matthew Rozsa
Anthony Fauci | COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fauci: we're racing to stop a surge

Matthew Rozsa
Advertisement:
A worn-out mouth and nose protection mask lies thrown away on the street (Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images)

CDC director warns of "impending doom"

Matthew Rozsa
On the top of the Empire State Building, a pigeon contemplate NYC (Getty Images)

The pandemic makes birds more musical

Matthew Rozsa
Kevin Hassett

A shock unlike anything we’ve ever seen

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
Demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol to protest the death of George Floyd (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Protesters aren't pandemic hypocrites

Amanda Marcotte
Advertisement:
Coronavirus COVID-19 and Swedish Flag (Getty Images)

Why conservatives love Sweden now

Matthew Rozsa
Advertisement: