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The U.S. once again crossed a somber COVID threshold much faster than any country in the world.
Less than a year after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, the U.S. recorded its 500,000th death Monday, according to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard. That’s more than twice the COVID-19 fatalities registered in Brazil, which ranks second on the list.
President Joe Biden commemorated the half-a-million lives lost at a Monday evening ceremony in the White House, drawing on his own experience with heartbreak to personalize the unfathomable tragedy while exhorting Americans to wear masks and take other steps to prevent spread of the virus. He pointed out the death toll from the pandemic is higher than the number of U.S. service members killed in battle during World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.
Tone Wheeler
The inauguration of the President of the USA has been widely covered, from many angles, but there is one matter that deserves further analysis: design. Because design matters. Even in politics where it is consumed with symbolism.
As you would expect, the contrast in design between the former and the current incumbents is just as different as their politics. Not that you need a reminder after 4 years of relentless self-promotion by the narcissistic sociopath, but ‘Trumpitecture’ looks like this:
Trumpitecture clings to easy symbols: big means strong, bigger means stronger. There is a tale of Trump shortening an adjacent building in a scale model of Manhattan so his building would appear taller. The Las Vegas Trump Tower is gold, ah the subtlety. The Trump sign is 260 sqm in area (larger than the average American home) and the architect remarked: “Just for the record, I had nothing to do with this sign”.
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday led a national memorial observance on the eve of his inauguration to honor the 400,000 Americans who have perished from COVID-19 during the 11 months since the novel coronavirus claimed its first U.S. life.
Echoing the Biden campaign, and tightly coordinated with the speeches and imagery of his first day in office, the music insisted on unity after division, hope after pain