"Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic"

There was also no internet and social media to ramp up panic responses; and mainstream television news was less geared to the 'sensation-over-information' mode than it is today.

This is given a brief mention in the linked article, but I really suspect it plays an even larger part in the current pandemic of covid hysteria than the author suggests. Yes, it is a serious illness, and people should be cautious--especially those in the highest risk groups, and those who live with them/are in close contact with them--but it is not the Black Death. Listen to many a local newscast though, and you'd get something close to the impression that there are folks falling dead in the streets, and the corpse wagon rolling through calling 'bring out yer dead!'

I detest Trump and would not at all mind seeing his political undoing--in fact I hope for it--but that this thing is being used as political agitprop by both sides appears to be pretty evident. Back in the day, bigger things occupied the ruling powers, and something like this wasn't able to take over the discourse in the way this virus has.