In the West, life is cheap

Learning to live with Covid, the WHO says, doesn't mean we should tolerate this many deaths. Why are Europe and the U.S. so eager to do so?

Major media continue to be distracted by Omicron’s lower apparent severity, failing to focus on the rebounding overall death toll it is wreaking. But even late-night talk show comedian Stephen Colbert gets it: prevention remains key to reducing the overall level of danger, just as requiring people in cars to wear seat belts remains important even as car…