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Hello, it’s Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. President Trump got himself impeached again, and in record time: one week between the commission of offense, indictment, and a vote in the House of Representatives. Wednesday was notable in another way, too: For the second time this month, U.S. deaths from COVID-19 surpassed 4,000 in a single day. Despite the presence of a vaccine, January is set to be the deadliest month yet. Nearly 40,000 Americans have died 14 days into 2021. The worldwide total during the past year has now surpassed 2 million souls.
Viruses are a formidable adversary for humans, even if we’re doing everything right. That was not the case with this contagion. The institutions tasked with protecting us failed to do so, lapses exacerbated by dishonest, dysfunctional politics. ....

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