"COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with..2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional..government"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
"COVID-19 didn’t lay America low; it simply revealed what had long been forsaken. As the crisis unfolded, with another American dying every minute of every day, a country that once turned out fighter planes by the hour could not manage to produce the paper masks or cotton swabs"
"The nation that defeated smallpox and polio, and led..world for generations in medical innovation and discovery, was reduced to..laughing stock as..buffoon of..president advocated..use of household disinfectants as..treatment for..disease..he could not begin to understand."
"As..countries moved expeditiously to contain the virus,..US stumbled along in denial, as if willfully blind. With..4% of..global population,.. US soon accounted for more than..fifth of COVID deaths. The percentage of American victims..who died was 6 times..global average."
"Achieving the world’s highest rate of morbidity and mortality provoked not shame, but only further lies, scapegoating, and boasts of miracle cures as dubious as the claims of a carnival barker, a grifter on the make."
"Leading..charge is..Trump, a..liar and a fraud, a grotesque caricature of a strong man"
"As..British writer quipped, 'there have always been stupid people in..world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.'"
"As..British writer quipped, 'there have always been stupid people in..world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.'"
