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Slack is a possible remit. We know that if you're going to make mistakes, you're going

to try to say, oh it was just being cautious, that you're not going to go in the other direction,

but I suppose we're supposed to be incauscious. Got it? Doesn't give you the excuse to

cite caution for all your mistakes. Still, I understand the mistakes. It was a tough time.

Maybe I just have a soft spot for diminutive Italians, good at basketball, but we are a country

of 331 million people where many of us are ignorant of science and there are anti-vaxers

and all are angry at something.

May I'm super pro, Vax.

I roll my eyes at masking outdoors.

I don't know what that would get me labeled.

Vax enthusiast, mask, curious, clerk behind Plexiglass and Tagonistic.

So how good was whoever was in charge of our public health ever going to be?

How good was the best possible American health expert and communicator going to be if

good was defined by having most of the people love him or her?

It wasn't going to work.

Was this person going to be as good as the best Norwegian could be?

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