BREAKING: More than 500,000 people in the US have died from COVID-19, a once-unimaginable toll that comes after a year of uniquely American failures
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The coronavirus exposed fault lines and rampant inequality in American society. It has disproportionately killed those already sick, people with low incomes, and people of color.
Millions lost their jobs and were left with little means of support.
Millions lost their jobs and were left with little means of support.
For months, America bickered. While other countries put policies in place that allowed them to crush the coronavirus, our leaders descended into bitter partisan disputes about “lockdowns” versus “reopening.”
The symbol of the pandemic, the face mask, was transformed from a sensible precaution to a symbolic flashpoint in America’s interminable culture wars.
And through it all, the poor got poorer, the already fabulously rich got richer, and the bodies piled up buzzfeednews.com/article/petera…
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