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When it is all over and 000 would have died, people will, by clever and specious reasoning, try to make it all sound 'normal'. They might because the dead have no voice anyway.

But the American failure is one of epic proportions.
You have a govt 'by the people, for the people' that does not care about people.

You have the most sophisticated and expensive health care system in the world that just collapses and says it can do nothing.
You have hundreds of schools of public health, thousands of professors of public health who have presumably spent years training for such a crisis & have no idea what to do when the virus hits.

You have different levels of government that fight each other while people die.
You have a conception of human rights that says that my right is that by my reckless behavior I can infect whoever I want.

You have an education system that is so free that anyone can teach that the earth is flat, black helicopters are around, and epidemics are a hoax.
So which part of that system is really worth copying:
election of leaders
health
public health
inter-governmental relationships
human rights
education?
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