THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY WAS A YEAR AGO.

A new set of ukases took effect once the polls closed, but by month's end, their ineffectiveness at protecting people was becoming clear.  National Review's Jim Geraghty takes stock of that year of failure.  "The hard lessons of this pandemic were discernible very early on." It is now time for a reckoning.  "It’s starting to become safe to come out. Which means we’re due — overdue, really — for those extremely consequential decisions."  Let us call the roll: the public health establishment, dictatorial governors, the lying mandarins of Pekin.