We are learning, though our experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic that our country is like that rickety bridge—decades of neglect, bad maintenance, and questionable "improvements" have left us fragile. And then the corona virus is like the dump truck that stresses the bridge and then... collapse. There are a lot of things that could have been that dump truck. The point is that the bridge—our society and our institutions—was rickety in the first place.
Read MoreThe glimmer of hope unearthed by COVID-19 is that many debates about governance and society have been definitively answered: Our system is weak. The hidden kindness of this virus’ human tragedy is that Mother Nature has laid our weakness bare. Complacency corroded our system.
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