But the American failure is one of epic proportions.
You have the most sophisticated and expensive health care system in the world that just collapses and says it can do nothing.
You have different levels of government that fight each other while people die.
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.
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