Medical workers are not being tested, and each day brings new stories of sick, vulnerable people who are refused testing. The reaction of the internet community to celebrity Covid-19 testing has been, broadly, predictable. They’re counting on our attention being elsewhere – not Uncle Idris! – and they’re counting on our anger losing steam by the time this international nightmare ends. They’re counting on us taking it – as President Trump tells it – as “the story of life”.

Source: The Guardian March 21, 2020 07:18 UTC