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And have a great new year.

On this week's on the media, even though we're still in it, just, it's time to consider the

lessons of the year of our Lord, or a random chance, 2020.

We've not had a serious epidemic in the United States except HIV in well over 100 years.

We witness the pain, the agony, the struggles from afar.

As the country marks 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the former British colony finds

itself in a downward spiral of ethnic violence.

Here in Washington, he march ver a Maison Blanche.

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