SOLIDARITY AMID THE SOLITUDE.

Because however bad things are in Spain, we can at least feel confident that the government is scrambling to save as many people as it can, while your government, which is still my government, has left you on your own, and left my parents, who are old, and my siblings, my nieces, all my friends, their kids, their parents, almost everyone I love. When I landed at the John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, Donald Trump was still promising that Covid-19 would simply go away without any effort on the part of the government. The Chinese, he said, created the virus to wage economic warfare against Trump, and European governments were playing along, happy to invigorate their populations by shedding excess elderly. As horrifying as Spain's reality is, there is at least a sense that the government has been taking decisive and reasonably well-coordinated action with the health of the population in mind, not just the profits of a few. [Extracted from the article]

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