ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「When the pandemic first began in the United States more than three years ago, partisanship had little to do with how officials responded, writes David Wallace-Wells. Back in 2020, “the president was a lightning rod who seemed to polarize the country’s response all by himself, although he had rhetorical help from podcasters and radio hosts, governors and members of local school boards,” he says. “But at the state and local levels, for many months, red and blue authorities moved in quite close parallel. For the most part, red and blue people did, too.” David refers to an April report from 34 experts in PublicAffairs that delves into this very topic. “As the years unfolded, the country’s pandemic response began to suffer under the pressures of familiar red-blue conflict. But early pandemic partisanship, they suggest, is something of a myth,” David adds. Click the link in our bio to read more. #nytopinion