An Independence Day Like No Other
Yesterday, Donald Trump said - once again - that he thinks the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 will just "disappear." Maybe - but not until it has infected every last person in the United States. Because Trump refused to use his presidential powers to impose a nationwide standard for combating the virus, we ended up witih a patchwork of various measures among the states. And because Trump only cares about his reelection, he pushed to open the economy too soon. The result is that the virus is surging: more than 100,000 new infections in the last two days, and many communities have…
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