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In the aftermath of the catastrophe on Capitol Hill, an opinion piece in the New York Times took the seemingly curious step of comparing the situation in the United States to post-Soviet Russia. The author noted that the parallels between those who had attempted to ransack Congress and those who …

While both the worst terror attack in US history and the deadliest pandemic in a generation were immediately hyped as the defining elements of the era, the uncomfortable reality is that neither terrorism nor the novel coronavirus pose any risk more severe than taking a bath. However, the media hype …