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Covid-19 is Kicking Our Ass While We Await a Hail Mary

The opponent is running up the score and the U.S. counts on one big play but a new coach promises to change the momentum

Robert Roy Britt
Medium Coronavirus Blog
4 min readNov 9, 2020

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Beating a pandemic requires a serious game plan, offensive and defensive schemes well understood by scientists and health experts. And while fans of a new head coach may cheer the impending fresh strategy against the coronavirus, Team America is way behind and all our key players are expected to remain on the sidelines while Covid-19 runs up the already morbid score and carries its momentum into what, optimistically, might be considered the second half.

New coach, new strategies

President-elect Joe Biden promises a pandemic game plan conceived and then led by a scientifically minded coaching staff he’s already assembling.

The playbook is sure to script an obvious set of initial plays built on the fundamentals of virus blocking and tackling that epidemiologists and other infectious-disease experts deem critical to making the population healthy and thereby enabling a healthy economy.

We’ll look at the ideal playbook below. But frustrating as it might be for Team America in the meantime, there’s little hope of any momentum shift before…

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Robert Roy Britt
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB