Alex Gutentag on school closures, masking and vaccine mandates, and the great Covid wealth transfer

Last week I interviewed Alex Gutentag, a former Oakland public school teacher and, in my opinion, one of the best writers on Covid-19 around. Like me, Alex comes from a leftist background rooted in the labor movement, and, like me, she’s become highly skeptical of much of what has become conventional wisdom on the left. In her case, the source of her skepticism is what she believes to be a massive overreaction to Covid, which has come at the cost of our civil liberties and from which some of the wealthiest individuals and corporations on the planet have richly profited.

—Leighton