JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT:

Threading through this predictable scrum, every day: a retweeted word of warning from somehow pleading everyone to stay home, because they got COVID despite doing everything right. Masks, distancing, sanitizing, everything – and they still got it. This is held up as a possibility so dire it becomes the default assumption under which everyone else should live.

If you go to a restaurant, you deserve what you get.

But if you just go out, and do everything right, and you get it, do you deserve it?

No! Because they weren’t going to a restaurant! But they did leave the house. Or they did let someone into their house. They should have known better. So they’re slightly deserving, right?

No.

What if no one’s guilty? What if no one deserves it? I don’t blame anyone, except China. If you’re hoping someone gets it and drawing up fantasy rules whereby they’re forbidden medical treatment, there’s something askew with you. There always was. This just brought it out.

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It’s fun to make up lists.

Some people just love lists.

Read the whole thing.

(Incidentally, if you’re curious about your own potential place in the line, the Gray Lady has you covered: Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line.)