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Krugman writes: "I don't know about you, but I'm feeling more and more as if we're all trapped on the Titanic - except that this time around the captain is a madman who insists on steering straight for the iceberg."

Paul Krugman. (photo: MasterClass)
Paul Krugman. (photo: MasterClass)


The Deadly Delusions of Mad King Donald

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times

11 July 20


He won’t give up on a failing pandemic strategy.

don’t know about you, but I’m feeling more and more as if we’re all trapped on the Titanic — except that this time around the captain is a madman who insists on steering straight for the iceberg. And his crew is too cowardly to contradict him, let alone mutiny to save the passengers.

A month ago it was still possible to hope that the push by Donald Trump and the Trumpist governors of Sunbelt states to relax social distancing and reopen businesses like restaurants and bars — even though we met none of the criteria for doing so safely — wouldn’t have completely catastrophic results.

At this point, however, it’s clear that everything the experts warned was likely to happen, is happening. Daily new cases of Covid-19 are running two and a half times as high as in early June, and rising fast. Hospitals in early-reopening states are under terrible pressure. National death totals are still declining thanks to falling fatalities in the Northeast, but they’re rising in the Sunbelt, and the worst is surely yet to come.

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