Covid-19 and the dark side of American exceptionalism.
Death comes at you fast. Just three weeks ago the official line at the White House and Fox News was that the coronavirus was no big deal, that claims to the contrary were a politically motivated hoax perpetrated by people out to get Donald Trump. Now we have a full-blown health crisis in New York, and all indications are that many other cities will soon find themselves in the same situation.
And it will almost certainly get much worse. The United States is on the worst trajectory of any advanced country — yes, worse than Italy at the same stage of the pandemic — with confirmed cases doubling every three days…
To read the entire article by Paul Krugman from The New York Times, click https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/opinion/republicans-science-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare
