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FOCUS: Paul Krugman | The Next Disaster Is Just a Few Days Away
A worker at a food bank in Texas in May. Since then, things have only gotten worse. (photo: Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Some of us knew from the beginning that Donald Trump wasn't up to the job of being president, that he wouldn't be able to deal with a crisis that wasn't of his own making. Still, the magnitude of America's coronavirus failure has shocked even the cynics."
At this point Florida alone has an average daily death toll roughly equal to that of the whole European Union, which has 20 times its population.
How did this happen? One key element in our deadly debacle has been extreme shortsightedness: At every stage of the crisis Trump and his allies refused to acknowledge or get ahead of disasters everyone paying attention clearly saw coming.


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty)

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