Musings of Harvey H. Homitz

June 2022 To the Editor: Sir, Madam (or other), “Never in the history of human affairs has so much damage been inflicted on so many by so few”..with apologies to Winston S. Churchill.                         *(The Few speech 1940)* I refer of course to the Battle of Covid -19 now entering its third year with the explosive arrival of the Omicron variant.   Despite every defensive measure from endless hand washing, hand wringing and hand waving;  through masking, and double masking, to social separation, shut downs, and school closures, to lockdowns, vaccines and endless boosters, the resilient  mutating virus re-emerges,  like Rommel’s Panzers in 1940, behind the Maginot line to render the massive national investment irrelevant.  Forgive me for correlating the massive social costs of the French Maginot line with the massive social costs of the failure to defeat COVID-19.  The former turne...