It is strange how very tedious a tragedy can be. Politics aside, it seems clear that the US has reopened too quickly, with many leaders course correcting over July. It all feels so avoidable, so predictable, and so goddamned boring.
And people continue to die.
Why can't we get our act together?
"Disasters are, most basically, terrible, tragic, grievous, and no matter what positive side effects and possibilities they produce, they are not to be desired. But by the same measure, those side effects should not be ignored because they arise amid devastation. The desires and possibilities awakened are so powerful they shine even from wreckage, carnage, and ashes. What happens here is relevant elsewhere." Rebecca Solnit
Friday, July 31, 2020
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