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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Magnitude Of Our Failure

Josh Marshall lays out the relative scale of outbreaks and concern over Covid in other countries. As he notes, Germany is responding aggressively to an outbreak of 639 cases. But if you break it down into percentage of the population, Germany's outbreak is less than three times New York's. Florida's is 43 times worse.

People would've died from Covid if someone other than Trump was President. People would've died in Anthony Fauci was president, simply because Americans are profoundly stupid and stubborn about science and government actions.

But it absolutely did not have to be this bad.

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