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Someone Forgot to Tell Trump Why We Shut Down

And now we’re screwed

Photo by CDC on Unsplash

The reasons we all stayed home for two months were supposed to be:

  1. Flatten the curve. We stayed home so that the number of humans contracting COVID-19 from the spread of the novel coronavirus didn’t overwhelm our healthcare system. So that every human who needed treatment in an intensive care unit had a bed there available to them. So…

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Heather Nowlin

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