K.E. Colombini writes from St. Louis, Mo. He has been published in First Things, The American Conservative, the Washington Examiner, the National Catholic Register and elsewhere.
Valetudinarianism connects arguments about the pandemic and the climate, with, on the one side, a distrust of experts and politicians, and, on the other, the belief that science (however defined) is paramount and must dictate, not simply advise, policy.