An Unpublished Letter to The Guardian Regarding the Pandemic of Covid-19

By Michael Collins Morton
(The letter below, which I wrote in an attempt to heighten awareness regarding the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, was submitted, in June, 2026, to The Guardian, a British newspaper renowned for its self-proclaimed dedication to the common good, but was not published, offering another shameful instance of a media outlet apparently being unwilling to acknowledge Covid-19 as an extreme threat to human safety.)

To the editor:

Although The Guardian is to be commended for regularly using its journalism to promote a thorough examination of the many problems that currently threaten the human community (climate change, nuclear weapons, rampant fascism, capitalist inequity, etc.), it has overtly failed in its moral obligation to promote the same degree of examination in regard to the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19. It appears that in 2026, The Guardian, in common with the general public, has wrongly chosen to view Covid-19 as a lesser threat (or indeed, as no threat) to human survival.

The foreboding truth is that the uncontrolled spread of Covid-19 constitutes a grievous threat to the collective well-being of the entire human community. As reported by the website Our World in Data, the number of "estimated cumulative excess deaths" caused worldwide by Covid-19 since 2020 is likely to be at least 27 million, with such mortality continuing to increase, daily, weekly, and monthly, as a direct result of denial and negligence. Why is The Guardian choosing not to pay necessary heed to the clear, urgent threat posed by unrestrained Covid-19?



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