In American way of death, Jessica Mitford depicts the satin-lined coffins, beautified corpses, and lavish wreaths of the American funeral industry. What made the bereaved family pay for those luxuries wasn’t just their emotional weakness in the moment of loss. It is also a national culture that fears and even rejects death: that is, to honor its cold truth.
In a virus pandemic, even 58 years later, we can expect such a country to find a way to limit deaths at all costs – and those with collective histories more or less harsh. , such as China, will suffer even greater losses. But afterthat the fire of clichés past 20 months.
The US Covid-19 death rate in the world far exceeds that of the world’s population. It ranks in the middle Mexico and Romania mortality rate per 100,000 people. America has also been surpassed by Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil about the use of vaccines, although several of them have been invented.
Under Donald Trump’s bad governance, these numbers can be interpreted as something false and fleeting: populist paychecks. But Joe Biden has now been president for about half the duration of the pandemic. For the most part he was elected to curb it. His failure to do so was a central truth of his presidency.
It’s also one of those things that hasn’t been discussed curiously. America does not have the atmosphere of a country that is still losing thousands of people to disease every week. Many voters named the economy main handle rather than citing public health. Biden’s Gerald Ford-ish approval rating relies heavily on high retail prices. If the best of the Mitford sisters live to see it, this spectacle will force a revision of her wonderful book. Whatever America lacks now, it’s not the ability to look death in the eye.
Nor, since Biden is seen as freed from the pandemic, there is a liberal bias at work. Remember, he received a lot of credible criticism from his own Democrats about Afghanistan, and it was the US war that he considered pessimistic for more than a decade.
The administrations that have succeeded in the state-building experiment in Afghanistan have failed less often than he has done. end it. A class of media politicians who have spoken little on the subject in recent years have noticed their shrill voices.
In terms of the economy, he has been fortunate enough to be the face and voice of the price inflation that is actually taking place across the globe. To the extent that U.S. monetary and fiscal easing is to blame, it largely predates his White House. Trump got through not one but two stimulus bill.
Are not. True, the central government can only do so much in a federal state of individual and oppose non-cooperation. The US will never apply European restrictions in the long run of Europe. Having been freed with a license to socialize and travel, I am the first to salute it.
But none of this accounts for Biden’s string of non-compulsory errors. Then he came up with the idea of vaccine mission rather than President Emmanuel Macron of France. When he got there, the policy was tentative in design and implementation. He also spent most of this year on a social spending bill named, Build back better, rather assuming that the post-pandemic world is already here. As the bill passed Congress scathingly, the time and political focus it had expended from the fight against the virus became incalculable.
It is difficult to know whether his previous experience in government makes this lack of executive control more confusing, or much easier. At least to begin with, Barack Obama’s White House, of whom he served as vice president, has argued that effective government is about well-intentioned people holding office: first principles suffice. The importance of brooding, of purely technical slogans, recognized them early, if at all. The mistake recurred after Biden’s inauguration last January, when much of the rest of Americans assumed that not being Trump was half the key to a resolved pandemic.
It wouldn’t matter much if Biden’s record was purely domestic notes. But the United States is engaged in a thought contest with a China that has prevented mass death and recession. For third countries, considering the two systems, the performance of the United States may be equivalent to that of an entire government. The causes of democracy in the world are considered sufficient to be unrelated, as in the United States, to the avoidable loss of life of tens of thousands of people. I think, as bleak as it was a year ago, this could all turn into a rogue president’s way of doing things.
