The latest reports I’ve read estimate coronavirus lasts “in the air for up to three hours, on copper for up to four hours, on cardboard for up to 24 hours, and on plastic for up to .” But no one seems to have studied a critical metric—how long is planning to live on in our brains.Best guesses put it at: forever.I remember the week that I realized coronavirus had become the only thing I was capable of thinking about.
It was around March 8. I had received a notice from the American Conservative Union informing me that an attendee at its annual conference had for the virus.
CPAC, for the unaware, is a gathering of devoted Trumpists; I’d attended as a journalist and been exposed—both to the president’s delusional followers and to a pandemic..