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The answer is: we won’t know for at least a while. The Washington Free Beacon argued yesterday that the COVID-19 pandemic has vindicated Brexit not necessarily because of anything the United Kingdom did, but because the European Union’s response has been disastrous. The UK had its early struggles in coming to grips with the pandemic, but its divorce from the EU allowed Boris Johnson the ability to chart the country’s independent course on vaccines and public-health response.
That divorce saved thousands of lives, the Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium argues. In this, the Free Beacon finds itself in rare agreement with the New York Times, although the latter largely avoided a conclusion two weeks ago making the same comparison:
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