The Week - USA (2021-03-20)

ARTS

22 Books

Kazuo Ishiguro delves

into an artifi cial mind

23 Author of the week

Isabel Allende’s defi ant

independence

24 Art & Music

Meow Wolf’s

mind-altering

Omega Mart

25 Film &

Home

Media

A glitchy

start to

Hollywood’s

award season

NEWS

4 Main stories

The U.S. vaccine rollout

picks up speed; Covid

relief package arrives at

the Senate

6 Controversy of the week

Did former President

Donald Trump secure

control of the Republican

Party at CPAC?

7 The U.S. at a glance

Supreme Court hears

voting rights case; Dr.

Seuss books pulled over

“hurtful” racial images

8 The world at a glance

A buttery scandal in

Canada; Alexei Navalny

sent to Russian labor camp

10 People

David Lynch on the power

of routine; Laverne Cox on

being a trans role model

11 Briefi ng

How Covid-19 has

devastated Native

American communities

12 Best U.S. columns

When the “woke” see

racism everywhere; the

GOP’s voting crackdown

15 Best international

columns

VIPs jump the vaccine

line in South America

16 Talking points

New York Gov. Andrew

Cuomo accused of sexual

harassment; Mr. Potato

Head goes nonbinary; an

epidemic of vaccine envy

LEISURE

27 Food & Drink

A caulifl ower roast that

explodes with fl avor; three

“performance” beers

28 Consumer

Gear that will elevate your

dishwashing game; apps to

build good habits

BUSINESS

32 News at a glance

A crypto exchange plans a

$100 billion IPO; a sneaker

resale scandal at Nike

33 Making money

The booming housing

market; bad news on your

work-from-home offi ce

34 Best columns

President Biden backs union

drive at Amazon; a legal

defeat for private equity

Stickers for the newly vaccinated at a hospital in Bridgeport, Conn. (p.4)

David Lynch
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When I arrived at our usual Indian restaurant to pick up a take-

out order, I was puzzled to hear shouting and laughter. The

chairs were still up on the tables, as they had been for nearly a

year, except for one table in the corner, where three elderly cou-

ples were hooting and hollering, clinking glasses in toasts, and

celebrating as if World War III had just ended. Which, for them,

it had. The Covid vaccines are rolling out now across the U.S.,

but with demand still far outstripping supply, we now have

outbreaks of vaccine envy. (See Talking Points, p. 17.) Envy is

under stand able: These miraculous shots confer nearly total pro-

tection against hospitalization and death, and can parole us

from the lonely gloom of our Covid prisons. Still, by June, every

American who wants a jab should be able to get one, and by this

summer, there should be clinking glasses everywhere.

Liberation will come with a caveat. Millions of Americans may

resist vaccination, slowing or blocking true herd immunity.

That would keep the virus circulating and mutating— raising

the risk of a variant that could elude current vaccines and rein-

fect those who’ve already had Covid. This may be already hap-

pening in Brazil and South Africa. Since the U.S. and a few other

wealthy countries have bought up nearly all of the available vac-

cine doses, much of the world is likely to remain unvaccinated

into 2022. Not a single person has been vaccinated so far in 130

countries with a total population of 2.5 billion. Why should

Americans care? Our shared humanity should suffice, but there’s

self- interest, too. If billions remain unprotected, new mutations

will continue to arise—and we may wind up with outbreaks of

Covid-22 or Covid-23, new restrictions, and a need for new vac-

cines. The coronavirus has reminded us how deeply intercon-

nected all 7.6 billion of us are, whether we like

it or not.

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