An unfortunate, new version of coronavirus American exceptionalism, that is,
"Today it is leading in a different way: More than 840,000 Americans have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and at least 46,784 have died from it, more than anywhere else in the world." (Bennhold, Katrin "‘Sadness’ and Disbelief From a World Missing American Leadership," The New York Times, 4/23/2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/world/europe/coronavirus-american-exceptionalism.html. Accessed on 4/24/2020)
Here's some advice from ProPublica to American state governors with examples of how leaders from other parts of the world have dealt with COVID-19, quarantine, public schooling and slowly opening up their economies. Essentially, it breaks down such political decisions into terms of how this disease works, how people working as trackers are necessary in order to isolate it to prevent its spread and how timing will be of the essence.
We can't try to "get back to normal" because there will be no normalcy as we know it from here on out. The "new normal" is going to be a world that has to wait a year or more before a vaccine can be found. It means that we must CONTINUE wearing masks, gargling, thoroughly washing our hands and practicing social distancing. We have to be aware of our basic relationships with our friends and family members and re-invest our energies into making them work better as we are going to be spending much more time together from now on.
I just signed a @commoncause petition: Stop Trump’s war on on legitimate oversight. Sign here: https://t.co/BzFqWxnhYt
— JohnnyInJapan (@JohnnyInJapan) April 23, 2020
And we must do all we can to resist tyranny and reaffirm democracy, in any way we can. Let's keep learning from each other and about our collective history to continue to evolve as members of this web of life.
Social distancing together by Kim DeMarco, https://www.thenation.com/article/society/social-distancing-together/
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