Nothing arouses liberals more these days than expressing a deep sense of disappointment in people who didn’t lock the doors and hide under the bed for a year because they might otherwise risk being exposed to a virus that is severely harmful only to relatively few people.

That arousal continues with the latest column from David Brooks. “In 2020,” he wrote Thursday, “Americans failed to socially distance and test for the coronavirus and suffered among the highest infection and death rates in the developed world. Millions decided that wearing a mask infringed their individual liberty.”