I am not sure if this editorial is pay-walled, but you get the idea. It is captured in a quote from FDR in 1936 about the meaning of “liberty.”

“Liberty,” Roosevelt said at the Democratic Party’s convention in 1936, “requires opportunity to make a living — a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.”

The pandemic has shown that vast numbers of Americans – probably a majority of younger people – do not have such liberty. In the aftermath this has to be fixed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/new-zealand-isnt-just-flattening-the-curve-its-squashing-it/2020/04/07/6cab3a4a-7822-11ea-a311-adb1344719a9_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

Further evidence that what we are going through did not have to be this bad. Based on science – not politics – the government of New Zealand took drastic and economically painful measures sooner, rather than later. The results speak for themselves.

Tuesday’s Wisconsin Election Is Our Future

Republicans have overruled the governor and have required that Wisconsin hold its primary election today. This requires people to risk their lives in order to vote. This ruling is by the GOP-dominated Court that is likely to lose a seat if the election is re-organized to be safe. Self interest above the lives of the people. That is the party of Trump in a nutshell.

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/04/how-the-tea-partys-war-with-obama-left-the-federal-medical-stockpile-unprepared-for-coronavirus_partner/?utm_source=Master+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=86ca92d933-DAILY_W_IMAGES_AND_ADS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5deda2aaa7-86ca92d933-303226269

Surprise. It is government hating Republicans who bear the blame.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/politics/trump-fires-inspector-general-michael-atkinson/index.html

Trump hopes you won’t notice or care about this outrage in the midst of the pandemic crisis his failed leadership has deepened beyond measure.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/03/only-official-fired-over-virus-captain-who-tried-protect-his-crew/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

From the article . . .

“About a month ago, when Trump was still calling concern about the coronavirus a “hoax,” the New York Times reported that Esper had “urged American military commanders overseas not to make any decisions related to the coronavirus that might surprise the White House or run afoul of President Trump’s messaging on the growing health challenge.””

Captain Crozier is a hero. We need a government where heroism, not loyalty to Trump’s lies, is how you advance your career.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-navy-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-navy-expected-to-relieve-commander-of-coronavirus-stricken-aircraft-carrier-idUSKBN21K3B9

5,000 people living in tight quarters with 100 virus carriers. What could possibly go wrong?

Basic message – dosage of the virus may be the main determinant of the severity of the illness. Common sense, really, but worth taking note of.

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/02/our-dunning-kruger-president-trumps-arrogance-and-ignorance-are-killing-people/?utm_source=Master+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=f00af2a236-DAILY_W_IMAGES_AND_ADS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5deda2aaa7-f00af2a236-303226269

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”   – Isaac Aisimov

This graph starts at the point where 500 cases was reached in each of the four countries. Not shown is South Korea which had its first deaths at the same time as this country. Its total deaths is now at 162 and inching up. Ours stands at 3,170 and skyrocketing. Government dithering and failed leadership are deadly.