The pandemic has changed everything. So why does the race for president look the same?
By Andrew Malcolm Special to McClatchy
May 19, 2020 06:00 AM
A favorite story involves a patient, on a couch, calmly recounting his deepest inner fears to a psychiatrist. Suddenly, the patient yells, “They’re all over me!†And frantically brushes the invisible insects off his body. The psychiatrist jumps up, too. “Well, don’t get them on me!â€
So much of our national life in 2020 seems affected by such invisible fears and often inexplicable reactions to them. The primary one obviously has been the microscopic coronavirus, which has now infected upwards of 5 million people worldwide and reportedly killed more than 300,000.
In February, America had a booming economy. Since then, because of fears of this invisible virus and even worse fears of it somehow spreading further, the entire economy is paralyzed. More than 36 million men and women have filed unemployment claims. Schools are closed indefinitely, as are most offices.
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