Democracy has a death wish

Elected officials face a conundrum: how to protect constituents who would rather die than keep fighting Covid.

The United States has now lost one million more lives than normal during the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That includes the more than 950,000 confirmed Covid deaths and fatalities from other causes in excess of the “normal,” pre-pandemic rate. This should silence those who say that Covid deaths are merely taking the lives of p…