The below CNN story appropriately ran on December 31st, marking the end of a tumultuous 2021 dubbed by many headlines to be "the year of the coronavirus vaccine". It was also a year of general Covid lunacy as people's faith in the public "science and health experts" began to wane, but also as true believers in the dogma of "trust the science" refused to allow an inkling of doubt, even as highly vaxxed populations saw numbers of cases soar.
"Chicago woman quarantined in airplane bathroom for 3 hours after testing positive for Covid-19 mid-flight" - the CNN headline reads. She locked herself in the bathroom while en route from Chicago to Reykjavik, Iceland (she planned to go on to visit family in Switzerland) - after panicking upon discovering that a sore throat was the onset of coronavirus. CNN seems to actually hail her as some kind of hero of public conscientiousness. The start of the story perfectly encapsulates the kind of neurosis and failed precautions and anxiety-inducing "health rituals" which have taken hold over vast segments of the population. The woman took no less than seven Covid tests just before the flight:
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