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It is clear that we in the United States do indeed live in an exceptional nation.

Our government is exceptionally bad at managing this pandemic in terms of both public health and the economy.

So bad that it looks like Americans will, along with Russians and Brazilians, be barred from entry to Europe

due to our infection rates remaining out of control.

A entirely revealing an ironic turn for this country, given that throughout its

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