COVID-19 in 2021: The Year of Living Unreasonably

In 2020, Americans learned that if emergency dictated, we could lock down, mask up, and blow out spending to temporarily stymie the impact of a global pandemic. We learned that if uncertainty required massive response, we could mobilize massive response, including the creation of new vaccines within one year. And in 2021, Americans learned that it’s easier to flip the switch on toward top-down control and government dependency than to turn it back off. We have vaccines that likely reduce the chances of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 (somewhere between…

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US research on living standards influences Labour policy – The Guardian

The Guardian US research on living standards influences Labour policyThe GuardianDouglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary and a close student of US politics, told the Guardian: "Back in 1992 the famous dictum of Bill Clinton's adviser James Carville was: 'It's the economy, stupid.' It contained the implicit assumption that … us politics – Google News

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