Cal Woodward, reporter, Washington, offered a penetrating, well-researched look at the puzzle behind the disaster we are living: “A nation with unmatched power, brazen ambition and aspirations through the arc of history to be humanity’s ‘shining city upon a hill’ cannot come up with enough simple cotton swabs” to test its people. Woodward looked at the many ways America has fallen short, including a western Massachusetts medical center that was forced to pick up masks more than five hours away using two tractor-trailers disguised as grocery trucks, dodging interference from Homeland Security and taking separate routes back in case one load got intercepted on the highway. https://bit.ly/3bOI2KD
A shortage of nearly everything, including ‘American exceptionalism’
The normally crowded area of Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange is deserted April 13, 2020, as the nation struggles to summons its resources against the coronavirus.
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