dealing with Covid-19 was disastrous in health terms. Despite the fact that the virus originated in Wuhan, the official death rate in the U.S. is more than 300 times higher than in China; in the UK it is more than 250 times higher than in China.[4] The U.S., one of the richest countries in the world, was overwhelmed with disruption, deprivation, disease and death. China—one of the poorest societies on the planet fifty years ago—airlifted medical equipment to North America to help ease the crisis. A quarter of a century ago, American scholars could claim with straight faces that liberal
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