Good morning, it’s Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Over the weekend, the human race hit a grim milestone: The novel coronavirus that spread rapidly out of central China a year ago has now claimed 2 million lives. That’s the official tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. When you think that China’s government still admits to only 4,800 deaths in the world’s most populous nation and where this contagion originated the true number is almost certainly significantly higher.
In two days, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes the oath of office as the 46
th U.S. president, the number of Americans felled by this pandemic will have surged past 400,000. Biden has vowed to vastly bolster the government’s vaccination efforts. I pray that he follows through on that promise.
Who were the Capitol rioters?
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President Trump was annoyed by the violent siege on the Capitol Wednesday â which left several dead â because it looked low class, reported
New York magazine s Olivia Nuzzi last week, citing an unnamed Trump adviser.
Was he right? Trawling for class analyses of the rioters this past week, I ve found nearly every possible variation: They were underclass. They were middle class. They were upper middle class. They were unemployed. They were small business owners. They were the deceived proletariat. They were the knowing petty bourgeois.
These analyses can t all be true â at least, not in their typical presentation as a comprehensive story of the crowd. So who