<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">One of the commentators spun quite a good turn of phrase. I think I want to write it here so I have a record and can go back and find it when I want it:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">The pandemic is like a mirror held up to society showing the ugliness of the powerful, the beauty of those trying to fight it, the naivety of many believing dogma and rumour ahead of science but most clearly reflected, is the pain and hopelessness of the poor</span></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#121212" face="GuardianTextSans, Guardian Text Sans Web, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">EricS</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#121212" face="GuardianTextSans, Guardian Text Sans Web, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 7, 2020, at 6:16 PM, Tom Johnson <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" class="">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Oh, how I wish Americans weren't so stupid.<div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><img width="0" height="0" class="chq-track-image" alt="" style="display:flex; border: 0; width: 0px; height: 0px" src="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cloudhq-mkt9.net%2fmail_track%2fmail%2f4410a7540f47d2fc72_1607383068799%3fuid%3d226430&c=E,1,EaWnPxqNdujL4sqsiE4Pad0P8ItgtPRX9g46VSy8pfhvIPg6WkrVe1TkD132fCxp3-FyNoalkcjFpdHQ1p8grQgMYuZAw8Ot191tVQE0rOGM5rA,&typo=1"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class="">============================================<br class="">Tom Johnson - <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cloudhq-mkt9.net%2fmail_track%2flink%2f4410a7540f47d2fc72_1607383068799%3fuid%3d226430%26url%3dmailto%253Atom%2540jtjohnson.com&c=E,1,m9v0ZL68z_i5skktpm90KVRXh5bqNCQ0voaRZcMqOTh3kIp3VxRm97CvhOHWLOMvVjT9RAuxR9q-wuAWFpinrR74HbGVyUdq1q-thoIs5kZ4LBfTtz0,&typo=1" target="_blank" class="">tom@jtjohnson.com</a><br class="">Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA<br class="">505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)<br class=""><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cloudhq-mkt9.net%2fmail_track%2flink%2f4410a7540f47d2fc72_1607383068799%3fuid%3d226430%26url%3dhttp%253A%252F%252Fnmfog.org&c=E,1,7QTyOekLqOuxSXD8DevR4w2P4M-FH0ZVcETExW0rAlErrdZyctIYggSfiYnjOEMunL-sW5E12DPDTEiXwYAx_yhMhz9jy52c8yk9TgRrwDKEMQ,,&typo=1" target="_blank" class=""><b class=""><font color="#0b5394" class="">NM Foundation for Open Government</font></b></a><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#0000ff" class="">Check out <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cloudhq-mkt9.net%2fmail_track%2flink%2f4410a7540f47d2fc72_1607383068799%3fuid%3d226430%26url%3dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.facebook.com%252Fpages%252FIts-The-Peoples-Data%252F1599854626919671&c=E,1,P6oa27LcOYwOIx4aUdlxdklcmODiI5A_sv_J2wWeeK9jNipPZdZlnvf18twy1KMbRWKLskeWh5LqTECs1EFAn2HOkFbkIxjfg86R9-HqQ3B5kiFrNM2QkrHD&typo=1" target="_blank" class="">It's The People's Data</a></font></b> </div><div class="">============================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Dorothy Bracey</strong> <span dir="auto" class=""><<a href="mailto:dhbracey@comcast.net" class="">dhbracey@comcast.net</a>></span><br class="">Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 3:15 PM<br class="">Subject: Fwd: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass<br class="">To: Tom Johnson <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" class="">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><u class=""></u>
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Read the comments too. It’s all pretty chilling. One of them that really got to me is:
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<br class="">Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass
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