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Published: April 8, 2025
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Who Gets to Decide What Was “Too Much” in the COVID-19 Response?
In a powerful and timely article for Psychology Today, Dr. Jay Varma challenges a growing narrative that pandemic policies went too far. As the public re-evaluates school closures, mask mandates, and vaccine campaigns, Dr. Varma warns of a critical blind spot in these reassessments: survivor bias.
More than 1.1 million Americans died from COVID-19. Millions more now live with long COVID or heart conditions brought on by the virus. Yet their voices—and the infections that were prevented—are often absent from today’s political debates and media conversations.
Dr. Varma argues that by focusing only on the experiences of those who made it through, we risk misjudging what was necessary—and undermining future crisis responses. This essay is both a call for humility and a reminder to include those who cannot speak for themselves in our collective memory and policymaking.
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👉 Who Decides What Was “Too Much” in the COVID-19 Response?
