By Barry Kent MacKay, General Manager

As I sit in my home office, dutifully socially isolated from the rest of humanity, I find myself growing weary of the “deniers”.  And I don’t only mean the dwindling numbers of conspiracy theorists claiming the COVID-19 pandemic that is imposing my self-isolation, as if it were some vast “socialist” plot to destroy capitalism and free enterprise, but also those who want to return to “business as usual”, the very thing that got us into this costly, and dangerous, mess in the first place.  I finally decided to respond to one, not to change the minds of those who wrote it, but to provide an analysis of their views.

The authors are Dan Challender, Amy Hinsley, Diogo Veríssimo and Michael `T Sas-Rolfes.  It…