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June 26, 2020 05:05 pm GMT

The world is putting America in quarantine

"Around the world, it is beginning to sink in how profoundlyrotten the United States is,"writes Ryan Cooper inThe Week."Unless America manages to turn things around, it will slide from the center of the international order to a peripheral, mistrusted basketcase, and it will deserve it."

Cooper goes on to explain that the reason America has become a global pariah is the government neglected to adopt an effective containment protocol early on, and because "American public health experts spent weeks on a bizarre and scientifically illiterate crusade against masks a study years agofound that even cheap homemade masks significantly reduce droplet-based infection but even after plenty ofnew evidencehascome in, Trump and most Republicanskeep insistinga mask is a matter of personal choice. Instead masks got sucked into theconservative grievance industrial complex, becoming another postmodern cultural signifier for right-wingers trying to own the libs."

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