{"id":46691,"date":"2021-02-22T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46691"},"modified":"2021-02-22T20:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:45:05","slug":"this-is-success-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46691","title":{"rendered":"This is success? Hardly!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> <\/em>\/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s face facts.<\/p>\n

The United States of America comprises 5 percent of the world’s population.<\/p>\n

However, our great nation accounts for 20 percent<\/em> of the worldwide death toll attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

These two statistics are worth noting because of a third number: 500,000, which is the number of Americans who have died from the pandemic in a year.<\/p>\n

I mention this yet again because we were told a year ago by the then-president of the United States that we had the disease “under control.” It wasn’t.<\/p>\n

Is the disease under control now? There exist signs that it well might be starting<\/em> to be corralled. Vaccinations are being delivered. Americans are wearing masks, are keeping their distance from each other and avoiding what doctors all “congregant settings.”<\/p>\n

That is progress. If only we could have been spared the lies about having a killer “under control.”<\/p>\n\n

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