Above All Else, It was a Spectacle ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Above All Else, It was a Spectacle ⋆ Brownstone Institute Over the last few weeks I’ve been chewing on The Spectacle of Covid. The more I think about it, the weirder it gets. What’s striking about the iconic images from the pandemic is how contrived and artificial they now appear. These photos were presented as “breaking news” but now it seems that nearly all of the iconic images of the pandemic were elaborately staged to tell a particular story and achieve certain political outcomes. Let’s walk through some of the key pictures from the pandemic and then have a discussion about what it all means.