"When the official count of Covid deaths passed 35,000 in April, Harris wrote to Musk to ask, cheekily, whether this meant he’d won the bet. Musk did not respond. In fact, to read Harris’s retelling of it, that was the end of their friendship and the moment he watched his old comrade disappear into a kind of alternate reality."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/opinion/covid-fifth-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z04.IB3N.NLwgltyEef-S

Opinion | The Fifth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic Reveals New Lessons

Five years since a novel virus spread everywhere, it’s hard to remember what the beginning was like.

The New York Times