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kpete

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Mon Jul 20, 2020, 12:11 PM Jul 2020

America Blew It. We Spent the Spring Trying to Build a Bridge - BUT - We built a PIER instead [View all]

America spent the spring building a bridge to August, spending trillions and shutting down major parts of society. The expanse was to be a bent coronavirus curve, and the other side some semblance of normal, where kids would go to school and their parents to work.

The bottom line: We blew it, building a pier instead.

There will be books written about America’s lost five months of 2020, but here’s what we know:

We blew testing…

We blew schools…

We blew economics…

We blew public health…

We blew goodwill….

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-america-blew-it-b3d84ea3-78b3-4fe0-8dce-1c4ed0ec0a4c.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter

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