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1. Obama's endorsement of Biden is really worth listening to. The amount of time Obama gives to making the case to Sanders supporters is a good indication of what Biden needs to do to bring the party together.
2. Bernie's supporters were attracted to him for a very specific policy agenda (M4A, free college, Green New Deal). Just having Sanders himself endorse Biden won't move enough people unless it is accompanied by genuine moves on these issues.
3. More thoughts on Obama's unity push and what concrete actions have to be done by Biden to make it persuasive thenation.com/article/politi…
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1. Macron says the pandemic is an "existential event for humanity" which will "change the nature of globalization" He's surely right: the quick spread of covid-19 has been enabled by system of economic globalization (supply change, easy jet travel).
2. There's no return to the old normal. The only real option is to create a viable new normal that can address not just this pandemic but future shocks to international system, which means rethinking trade, supply chains, & fostering local manufacturing.
3. One obvious response to covid-19 is intensification of anti-globalist right & nationalism: strengthening borders, nationalist ideology to justify sacrifice, attacks on minority groups & international organizations (like WHO), blaming other countries.
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There's an argument gaining currency that American federalism has proven its worth in the pandemic but I find it hard to believe when the president is comparing himself to Captain Bligh and governors to mutineers. Also threatening to withhold medical supplies.
I think a more productive conversation about the American federalist system might focus on comparisons with other systems, especially Canada and Germany. Canada in particular, has enough commonalities with USA to make some interesting comparisons.
Canada like the USA has a federalist system. Canadian provinces actually have more power than USA states & there are starker regional divides (real secessionists movements in Canada). Trudeau, prior to COVID-19, has had big fights with provinces.
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1. The official count for COVID-19 is an undercount -- possibly a considerable undercount. In most places, it misses those who died at home or in nursing homes before being diagnosed.
2. How much of an undercount. According to Bloomberg Opinion, research done in Italian village found "there had been 158 deaths in the town in 2020 so far, as opposed to 35 on average in the previous five years." Only 31 of those 158 deaths attributed to COVID-19.
3. We won't get an accurate count till after the pandemic is over, when social scientists can then try to calculate excess deaths. But talking about these unrecorded deaths is important, to give public a sense of what is happening.
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