SIAP, but this great article in The Atlantic needs to be read and digested

[misanthrope]

Te coronavirus didn't break America. It revealed what was already broken.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/?fbclid=IwAR39y31NwYxo95Z6lJng1NBt-zFoMLyQrwFfNmigYQofJ7gjaPkLqy7sAPM

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R

Yup

[bronxiteforever]

2. Great article. K&R

[Newest Reality]

3. Also,

It reveals a great lack of vigilance and investigation.

It's not like the disrepair was a big secret or hidden away. It has just not been a focus of major media outlets and, because of that, many things can easily become invisible or hidden in plain site.

It takes more focus, effort and study for a society to see its flaws and the danger in them in advance. However, that is possible if we learn something from this. Many people would be more concerned about the details of a new car they want to buy than the state of the nation they are living in. In the end, which has the most long-term importance?

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[UncleNoel]

5. This paragraph says it all!

When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years. We had learned to live, uncomfortably, with the symptoms. It took the scale and intimacy of a pandemic to expose their severity—to shock Americans with the recognition that we are in the high-risk category.

[misanthrope]

6. I liked this passage, too

"A third of the country locked itself in a hall of mirrors that it believed to be reality; a third drove itself mad with the effort to hold on to the idea of knowable truth; and a third gave up even trying."

[brush]

7. "...Sarah Palin was trump's John the Baptist".

That's a quote from the article, a must read.

[burrowowl]

8. Kick