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Division Appears to Be Trump’s Only Coronavirus Plan
Civil wars don’t cure pandemics.
A desk empty of plans.
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“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy” is an idea that makes sense when applied to war, but the guy who said it first wasn’t necessarily opposed to plans per se. The people running America’s war on Covid-19 seem to have taken the idea too much to heart.