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  Just the facts, Ma’am: The United States has a population of about 330,000,000.  Germany has a population of about 83,000,000—that’s roughly 25% of the US population. Based on statistics for the Coronavirus as of August 27, 2020, at Worldometers :   The total number of reported Coronavirus cases in the US was 6,046,634.  The total number of reported Coronavirus cases in Germany was 240,565. The total number of reported Coronavirus deaths in the US was 184,796.The total number of reported Coronavirus deaths in Germany was 9,359.  Let’s review the math.   Germany, a country 25% of the size of the US, has seen 4% of the number of US cases and 5% of the number of US deaths from COVID-19.   Based on Germany’s population, had it followed the US approach to containing the virus, it would have seen 1,511,658 cases--not 240,565-- and 46,199 deaths--not 9,359.   But, thankfully, Germany didn’t rack up those numbers.   Why? The...

I wish I could come back 100 years from now to see how people make sense of this time.   The world is in the middle of a pandemic, a climate emergency, and the sixth mass extinction.   And what is the human species’ behavioral response to these looming catastrophes?   Two words come to mind:   suicide and homicide.   It’s widely accepted that the reason for the jump of coronaviruses from animals to humans lies with us.   We invade and destroy other species’ territories at will, burning rain forests, building roads into uninhabited or indigenous peoples' lands, shrinking other creatures’ habitats, all without considering the zoonotic disease consequences.   Our man-centric, no---man-exclusive--behavior makes us as responsible for the spread of SARS-CoV-2 as the bat which likely harbored it.    And after unleashing that virus, we denigrate the experts, notably public health doctors and scientists like Dr. Anthony Fauci above, who try to help ...