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“I remember many evenings looking over the ever rising death statistics while the news reported the latest inflammatory comments from then President Trump.” Gee, 31, and his wife Caroline Hirko would stand in their kitchen venting their frustrations, asking “how can no-one care anymore?” “More Americans have died from this than World War II, 9/11, and Vietnam combined, why can t they just call it the war on Covid and bring people together against it?” Gee asked. Unlike in New Zealand, where Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern frequently called on the “team of five million” to fight the virus, there was no team of 328.2 million in the United States. The pandemic became increasingly partisan. At one point, Trump even threatened to pull the pin on Congress’ US$900 billion ($1253.59b) Covid-19 relief package.

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