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My mom is pretty badass. Very type-A, very successful in everything she does. But as badass as she is, her father — my grandfather — was badass squared.He was born in 1927 in Hungary. His family was Jewish, and although his ancestors had been in Hungary for hundreds of years, only some of them were citizens, because one of them had gotten stuck on the wrong side of a border sometime in the long slow slide of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Citizenship was patrilineal, and because that guy was a paternal great-great-grandfather or somesuch, my grandfather was not a Hungarian citizen.This became a problem in 1941, when Hitler conquered Hungary during World War II. Apparently they were pretty nice to the Hungarians at first — and then, without warning, they started rounding up the Jewish non-citizens. A policeman went to the house of some of his relatives first to get one of my grandfather’s uncles, and luckily for my grandfather was chatty and mentioned he was picking up three more people with this last name afterwards! An aunt who lived there too but was a citizen made an excuse to go to the store to get an ingredient for something she was cooking, and ran as fast as she could to my grandfather’s house and told him and his parents that they had to leave, NOW!They went out the back door of their house, and it was a good thing, because apparently, the policeman was walking up the street to their front door with the uncle right then, and it’s likely they wouldn’t have fooled the policeman into thinking they didn’t know each other. He would learn after the war that his uncle was taken to Kamenets-Podolsk in what is now Ukraine, where he was machine-gunned. This was apparently the first of the Holocaust killings.There were a few other close calls during their journey to Fascist Spain to try to get on a ship to the U.S., like the two SS agents who were checking papers, and one of them convinced the other to let them go without checking because “They’re a family,” but my grandfather’s badassery was on full display in Spain. They were staying in a port city (I’m not sure which), waiting for a berth in a ship to America to open up. My grandfather found out that there were German Jews who were applying for asylum in Britain, but the British Embassy had no German speakers (this was, after all, in Spain), and most of the asylum-seekers knew only German.So he and his parents figured out a way to help. He knew Hungarian (his first language) and English. His parents knew Hungarian and German. So his parents would translate from German to Hungarian, he would translate from Hungarian to English, and vice versa. It wasn’t the most efficient way to do things, but it was the only option, and his idea likely saved the lives of dozens of German Jews who otherwise would not have gotten asylum. Keep in mind that at this point, he was only 14 years old!In the course of his work, he got to know a British consular official. One day, his parents learned that a berth had opened up in a ship that was leaving soon for Cuba. They could then hop another ship to New York City. Only problem was, it was a first-class berth and they only had money for one in steerage. The difference they would have had to come up with on short notice was around $100, which in that day was quite a bit of money — over $1700 in today’s dollars. His parents decided that they couldn’t afford it and wouldn’t be able to get the berth.But my grandfather had an idea: why not ask the British consular official for money? His parents were strongly against it — they thought it was way too much to ask. But he managed to persuade them that he should do it. The official agreed right away. As my grandfather said decades later, he likely didn’t expect to ever see that $100 again, but the family repaid him as soon as they got to New York. It turns out it was a good thing they borrowed the money. The Battle of the Atlantic was heating up and this turned out to be the last civilian passenger ship to leave Spain for the rest of the War.Once in New York, my grandfather took the entrance exam for Stuyvesant High School and got in. He recounted to me later that he was very proud to win an award for composition while there, despite the fact that Hungarian was his first language. He was accepted into Harvard after his graduation in 1946, but his family wasn’t sure where they were going to get the money to pay. Luckily, Uncle Sam answered that for him by drafting him into the Army. The war was over and he spent a year in the Philippines, where as he told me, he ate a lot of mangoes, but didn’t see any combat. Nevertheless, the GI Bill paid for his degree in physics. He then got a doctorate in physics, also from Harvard, and was accepted as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.The IAS was at the time chaired by Robert Oppenheimer, who of course was famous as the leader of the Manhattan Project that had ushered us into the nuclear age. He had fond memories of working with “Oppie,” as he called Oppenheimer, but his biggest moment at Princeton was not working with Oppenheimer, but meeting with an even more famous and consequential physicist: Albert Einstein. I can’t write about it as well as it was written in his obituary, so I’ll just quote it:According to an excerpt from Dr. Fulton's unpublished memoir, the one-hour meeting took place in the fall of 1954.Dr. Fulton wrote that he took a chance requesting a meeting with Einstein, and to his surprise it was granted. He noted in his memoir how the sun from the windows in Einstein's office "lit up his unruly and very pure white hair, making it shine like a kind of halo," and how "his heavily accented voice was soft, gentle and kind.""He looked and acted like a saint, and he was the genuine article, not an actor playing a saint," Dr. Fulton wrote of Einstein, who died about four months after their meeting. "He did not make me feel I was wasting his time, or that I was being importunate, even though he was obviously still engaged in research. His blackboard was covered with equations, connected with his long-running attempts to construct a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism."My mom said that he told her Einstein was more than willing to meet with him because everyone at the IAS figured, “Einstein is doing very important work! We can’t disturb him!” Apparently, Einstein was missing human contact and was out of his mind with boredom!After his fellowship was over, he was hired by Johns Hopkins University as a physics professor. This was an exciting time for physics, as the nuclear age was still young. He was interested in the subatomic particles that we were still discovering at the time. It turns out that he would become one of the founding members of the high-energy physics group at JHU. As befit his academic standing there, when they built a new physics and astronomy building in the 90s, he got a corner office on the top floor of the building. I remember fondly my time in that office (it was cavernous by most office standards!) drawing on the large blackboards that lined one wall.He spent a couple of sabbaticals at CERN in Geneva, and as far as I can tell (I don’t know much about physics myself), was interested in neutrinos in particular. According to another obituary, he was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received a Fulbright and a Guggenheim Fellowship. When my mom went to clear out his office after he died, she found correspondence from multiple other colleges offering him the position of Department Chair. But he was happy at JHU. One other short letter she found read, “You have been nominated for the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics,” and was signed by the Nobel committee. Obviously, he didn’t win, but the fact that he was even considered is amazing in and of itself.As much of a genius as he was at quantum physics, though, that wasn’t his only interest. He took graduate-level courses in art history while himself teaching and researching at JHU, and grew to know so much about it that he was on the committees for several graduate theses in art history, despite not having a degree in it himself. He loved classical music, including opera. He knew quite a few languages: in addition to Hungarian and English, he did eventually learn German and French, and knew enough Greek and Russian to visit those locales on trips. In fact, rumor has it that he helped several Russian physicists defect to the west through his trips to the USSR to attend conferences.He also liked to rock climb, hike, bicycle, and ski. Some of my fondest memories of him are of him taking us biking many times on an old rail-trail, and of our time accompanying him and my grandmother on ski trips to Switzerland. We would only be there for a couple of weeks, but my grandparents would leave Baltimore for Davos right before exams in mid December, and come back the day before the start of spring semester in late January. He also would go crabbing on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay a couple of times a summer and bring back his catch for a family crab feast.On one of their trips over the Atlantic on their way to Switzerland, he realized he couldn’t move the left side of his body. He had had a stroke. In Zurich, they put him on blood thinners and monitored him in the hospital for a couple of weeks, and then he got on the train to Davos and continued to show up his grandkids on the ski slopes for the rest of the trip. Over time, he had more small strokes, a result of atrial fibrillation, and they took a toll on his mental capacity. He met my girlfriend, who is now my wife, about a year before he died of heart failure related to his atrial fibrillation. Her name is Ashley, but he could only remember that it began with an A. I think she was Allison to him a couple of times, and then a few months later, he couldn’t even remember the “A” and called her “my almost-daughter-in-law.”He was truly larger than life, but also very down to earth. And I certainly can’t pick only one amazing thing he did. Was it his daring escape from the Nazis? His meeting with Einstein? His leadership of the high-energy physics group at a top-20 research university? The time he was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his work on subatomic particles? His fascination with all things, not just his specialties? You decide!

Battle of Britain began when the Luftwaffe initiated an air and sea blockade targeting coastal shipping convoys, ports and shipping centres, such as Portsmouth. The battle lasted several months, from July to October 1940. British historians claim that this time frame coincides with the period of large-scale German attacks. German historians maintain that the battle lasted until June 1941, when the Luftwaffe carried out its last raids into British airspace. The Luftwaffe’s main objective was to obtain air superiority over the RAF, in order to incapacitate RAF Fighter Command. To this end, the Luftwaffe began to attack the RAF’s infrastructure and airports. As the battle progressed, the Germans began to attack British airplane factories and their strategic infrastructure. In time, the Luftwaffe also began a bombing campaign of civilians in Great Britain, to lower morale. Due to the fact that the RAF stopped the Luftwaffe from obtaining air superiority, Adolf Hitler cancelled the Sea Lion operation. This operation had planned an amphibian and airborne invasion of Great Britain.The battle is famous for receiving its name before it began, through Winston Churchill’s speech in the House of Commons after the defeat in France: “... What General Weygand has called The Battle of France is over. The battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of a perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour”The American president, Franklin Roosevelt, rearmed, to a degree the British army after Dunkerque. Roosevelt sent encouraging messages to Churchill through his confidant, Harry Hopkins. Roosevelt put 50 warships at the disposition of the Royal Navy and applied pressure to pass the Lend-Lease Bill. In a speech given in Charlottesville, Virginia, Roosevelt clearly stated that he would put American weaponry at the disposition of democratic countries. The Lend-Lease Bill allowed America to furnish Great Britain and later, Allied countries, with war materials. The United States transferred to Great Britain the following weapons: 500,000 Lee-Enfield rifles with 129 million magazines; 895 75mm caliber cannons together with a million magazines; over 80,000 machine guns, 316 mortars, 25,000 Browning automatic rifles and 20,000 revolvers with ammunition. This transfer aided the arming of the Army Reserve and the members of the regular army which had returned from Dunkerque without weapons. 93 Northrop bombers and 50 Curtiss-Wright dive bombers also arrived in England. These airplanes were used to attack German warships and barges.Germany’s main objective, during this battle, was to force Great Britain to enter into peace talks to escape the constant Luftwaffe air attacks. From the moment he came to power, Hitler had expressed his admiration of Great Britain. However, he was aware that, after his invasion of Poland, an alliance with England was no longer possible. After the defeat of France, Hitler believed he could force England to sign a separate peace agreement, leaving Germany to direct its attention towards the Soviet Union. The indecision of German leaders concerning objectives during the battle was also reflected in the Luftwaffe’s strategy, which was continually changing. The Luftwaffe’s doctrine of supporting the ground troops’ blitzkrieg had been successful in Poland, Denmark, Norway, Benelux and France, but with great losses. The Luftwaffe had to reinstate air bases in the conquered territories and rebuild its forces. Although the British didn’t know it due to the chaos of war, the Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses in Holland. During the fighting there, the Germans lost 525 airplanes in only four days, due to the strong anti-aircraft fire of the Dutch. This was another factor which contributed to the cancelling of Operation Sea Lion. The Germans no longer had enough transport planes to load the paratroopers.The battle progressed in several stages. During the first part of the battle, probe attacks took place. Attacks followed along the English Channel, but also on important ports and airports on the coast. This was followed by the main assault, with attempts to destroy the RAF in southern England. The Luftwaffe began bombing ports and industrial cities. The fourth stage was the Blitz, when London was under constant attack. The last stage of the battle consisted of large-scale night-time attacks, especially against London. During the daytime, the attacks consisted of small-scale raids by German fighter planes. The probe attacks began during the battle for France and continued after France’s defeat. These attacks were meant to train the German pilots for the future large raids. This German tactic allowed the RAF to prepare for the main attack. Also, the RAF was able to form a general idea of the tactics used by the Luftwaffe.The greatest battle of this period took place on the 18th of August, a day named in history as ‘The hardest day’. The Germans tried to completely destroy the RAF through massive attacks. Both sides suffered very heavy losses. In the air, the British outperformed the Luftwaffe, but suffered heavy losses on the ground. Some of their aircraft were destroyed before they could take off. The battles over the Channel consisted of a series of attacks on British convoys. This stage of the battle favored the Germans, since Dowding could only offer minimal protection to the ships. The German attacks in this phase of the battle caused heavy losses for the British. Thus, the British gave up sending convoys by ship and began sending goods and provisions by train.On the first day of the Blitz, London was attacked by 400 bombers and 600 fighter planes. There was a massive raid against the docks in the eastern part of the city. The British were expecting a big raid, and the No. 11 Group responded quickly to the attack. After the attack, the German press began to jubilate. Göring declared that the RAF was on the verge of collapse, and that an invasion by land was possible. This did not prove to be true. The RAF disposed of much greater military resources than German espionage had estimated. The main assault was given the codename ‘Adlerangriff’. Spy reports from the beginning of this phase gave Göring the impression that the RAF was on the verge of collapse. The strategy at that point called for the destruction of the RAF in southern England, so that economic and military targets could be freely bombed. The climax would be a massive attack on London. As a first step, the Germans tried to put out the Dowding system by attacking the radar installations. The British were able to repair the radar stations quickly, making this tactic inefficient.The greatest battle of the Blitz took place on the 15th of September, which is called ‘Battle of Britain Day’. Approximately 1,500 planes fought it out, when the Germans made one last attempt to destroy the RAF. However, the British succeeded in defeating the Luftwaffe. As a consequence, Hitler cancelled Operation Sea Lion. After ‘Battle of Britain Day’, the Germans began to concentrate on night bombings of English towns. These raids gradually increased in intensity towards the end of the battle, but even these were not enough to defeat the will of the British. The last battle on British territory took place in Kent. The crew of a Junkers 88 put up resistance when they were met by the British soldiers who had received orders to capture the plane. After an exchange of gunfire, in which one of the Germans was wounded in the leg, the crew surrendered to the British, who fulfilled their mission.The end of the battle was Germany’s first major defeat. Germany was not able to force Great Britain to sign a separate peace deal. The British victory had high costs for civilians. 23,002 civilians were killed during the campaign, and 32,138 wounded. The battle also had the role of galvanizing American public opinion - at that time, the US was not yet involved in the war. During the battle, many Americans agreed with the opinions of Joseph Kennedy, American ambassador to London. Mr. Kennedy believed that the United Kingdom would be defeated. Roosevelt wanted a second opinion, so he sent William Donovan to England. Donovan was the chief of the American espionage agency - the Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the CIA. Donovan returned to the US convinced that England would be able to triumph, and must be supported. Although the Germans attacked the important industrial centers, they didn’t manage to destroy the British industrial potential. Even so, the danger to Great Britain was real, and the margin between victory and defeat was very small. The victory also improved the morale of the British, who had been defeated by the Germans in Scandinavia, Benelux and France. After the battle, Great Britain managed to rebuild its forces and become a stronghold of the Allies. From here, four years later, Operation Overlord was launched, the Allied invasion in France. Hitler’s Directive no. 16, asking for “England to be eliminated as a base from which the war against Germany can be continued” was successfully resisted. Great Britain truly did become such a base.

It is a series of blunders and failures in the government, social and economic sectors.The daily increase of Coronavirus cases in the United States.[1]As early as January 5, the World Health Organization of unknown cause is in China [2] after China informed the WHO of the pneumonia. And then, on January 10–11, China released the genome map of the virus.[3]On Jan 14, the first case outside China was detected in Thailand on Jan 14. [4]The US CDC made its first briefing about the coronavirus [5]on Jan 17 and implements entry screenings[6] on three airports.First case was confirmed in Washington state. [7]And then, the Wuhan lockdown happened on Jan 23, followed by lockdowns on neighboring cities and then the Hubei wide provincial lockdown. [8]Then this was Trump’s tweet. [9]For the first weeks of the month of February, aside from the rising of cases in the US, nothing much was happening. Trump was doing the usual during most of the month like downplaying the virus. [10]POTUS did ask some funding from the congress during this time amounting to 2.5 billion usd. [11]Then on February 25, the infamous contradiction took place. On one side, Trump said the virus is ‘very well under control in our country’ (meanwhile in China, they are at their worst period of the epidemic.) [12] Meanwhile, the US CDC ‘warn of coronavirus outbreaks in the U.S.’ [13]By the next day, Feb 26, President Trump formed the ‘White House Coronavirus Task Force’ under VP Mike Pence. [14] [15]By the next month, the US govt was starting to make their moves but, it was too late.One of the key factors of the US having the coronavirus outbreak worse than China was the difference of the actions of the heads of governments.Xi Jinping and his central government took the virus very seriously and mobilized every available resources China has on its disposal. He even went all the way and labelled it “The People’s War’. [16] [17]The Chinese acted fast and acted decisively. Picture source [18]Meanwhile, the American leadership denied that the virus was there, and that if it was there, it wouldn’t pose any danger to the American nation.And even when the virus was already there and the numbers starts to pile up, POTUS criticized[19] CNN and MSNBC for “panicking markets.” He said[20] at a South Carolina rally — falsely — that “the Democrat policy of open borders” had brought the virus into the country. He lashed out at “Do Nothing Democrat comrades.” He tweeted[21] about “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer,” mocking Schumer for arguing that Trump should be more aggressive in fighting the virus. The next week, Trump would blame[22] an Obama administration regulation for slowing the production of test kits. There was no truth to the charge.But, President Trump is not the only factor here.The American elite mentality of economy first before health has a profound effect on the American response.Source: [23] Don't worry Mr. Trump, I’m not going to judge.However, I’m going to say that the US government, especially the White House is concerned on the economy by a lot. Their actions of not responding fast and praying that it won't hit America. Trump wasn’t the only one who was slow. The US Congress - both parties, on the month of February, exhibited slow response.They also exhibited little to no pressure on the President of the United States to impose tougher actions on the month of February. (I can’t find a link to prove my argument though).Another problem is the American Health Care System.According to Marty Makary, MD, is a surgeon and professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins, there is a disconnect between those of us who are leaders in health care and the everyday hardworking, low-income and middle-class Americans. Half of Americans have less than $400 in savings and live paycheck to paycheck. And the reality is, things are fine when you are wealthy, but those who lives from paycheck to paycheck, a medical bill can be catastrophic. It can wipe out a college savings. It can mean a family doesn’t have money for food; it can mean a single mom can’t afford day care. Those are the real consequences of the high cost of care, and he felt that it was important to describe the current state so that we can be proximate to the problem. [24]Then David Blumenthal from the Atlantic cites three reasons why the United States lags behind its peers so consistently: [25]A lack of insurance coverage. A common talking point on the right is that health care and health insurance are not equivalent—that getting more people insured will not necessarily improve health outcomes. But according to Blumenthal: “The literature on insurance demonstrates that having insurance lowers mortality. It is equivalent to a public-health intervention.” More than 27 million people in the United States were uninsured in 2016—nearly a tenth of the population—often because they can’t afford coverage, live in a state that didn’t expand Medicaid, or are undocumented. Those aren’t problems that people in places like the United Kingdom have to worry about.Administrative inefficiency. “We waste a lot of money on administration,” Blumenthal said. According to the Commonwealth Fund’s most recent report, in the United States, “doctors and patients [report] wasting time on billing and insurance claims. Other countries that rely on private health insurers, like the Netherlands, minimize some of these problems by standardizing basic benefit packages, which can both reduce administrative burden for providers and ensure that patients face predictable copayments.” In other words, while insurance coverage in general is great, it’s not ideal that different insurance plans cover different treatments and procedures, forcing doctors to spend precious hours coordinating with insurance companies to provide care.Underperforming primary care. “We have a very disorganized, fragmented, inefficient and under-resourced primary care system,” Blumenthal added. In 2014 the Commonwealth Fund found that “many primary-care physicians struggle to receive relevant clinical information from specialists and hospitals, complicating efforts to provide seamless, coordinated care.” On top of a lack of investment in primary care, “we don’t invest in social services, which are important determinants of health” Blumenthal said. Things like home visiting, better housing, and subsidized healthy food could extend the work of doctors and do a lot to improve chronic disease outcomes.According to CNBC [26] As health care costs keep rising, more people seem to be skipping physician visits.It’s not fear of doctors, however, but more of a phobia about the bills that could follow. Higher deductibles and out-of-network fees are just some of the out-of-pocket costs that can hit a consumer’s pockets. U.S. health care costs keep rising, and hit more than $10,000 a year per person in 2016. According to a recent national poll, over the past 12 months, 44 percent of Americans said they didn’t go to the doctor when they were sick or injured because of financial concerns. Meanwhile, 40 percent said they skipped a recommended medical test or treatment.The American MediasphereThen there was the American media and its overwhelming coverage on China and its over-sensationalist coverage on the coronavirus outbreak at home and abroad. And also the fact that American media isn’t that trusted in the US.One area of why pandemic in the US is worse than China is that US media is not trusted by some sectors of the population.Every single group or individual listed in the poll had a higher approval than disapproval rating, save one: the news media. A mere 44 percent of respondents said they approve of the way media have handled the COVID-19 crisis, while 55 percent disapprove. [27]A sharp partisan divide on the president and news mediaJust 46% of Americans now say the federal government is doing enough to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, down from 61% in February.Just 37% of Americans now say they had a good amount or a great deal of trust in what they're hearing from the president, while 60% say they had not very much or no trust at all in what he's saying.Just 8% of Democrats and 34% of independents said they trust the information coming from the president. But three-quarters of Republicans said they do.When it comes to the news media, two-thirds of Democrats trust the information they hear coming from them; independents were split; and Republicans overwhelmingly said they do not trust what they're hearing from the media.Source: [28]Judging from this data, I can make a conclusion that although a good size of the population believes in the media, some do not believe. If that is the case, many would not listen to the influencers on the television. Thus, it causes people to think of doing whatever they want, even if the media displayed a dire warning.Then another side of media influencing the speed of the response is how xenophobia is being portrayed. The conservative media concentrates its resources on framing China as the one responsible for the outbreak. The story as a narrative is centered primarily around China. From this perspective, the drama centers around the refusal of the media and liberal elites to acknowledge China’s guilt. [29]Since its inception March 18, there had been more than 650 direct reports of discrimination against primarily Asian Americans. [30]Another player here are social media.“The optimistic view is that social media could prove useful at a time when many of us are otherwise isolated from one another. Conversations around the coronavirus, especially those at the community level, can help us navigate this crisis. Those discussions are reflecting how society is thinking and reacting to the crisis. They’re allowing society to sort of talk its way through what is an unprecedented kind of threat.” says Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Media Lab.[31]“But for every expert trying to share accurate information or community leader organizing a grocery run, there are thousands of users spreading rumors, sensationalism, and other forms of disinformation. It pulls everyone out of the woodwork,” says Daniel Rogers, an assistant professor at New York University and co-founder of the nonprofit Global Disinformation Index. [32] [33]Many who rely on social media aren’t paying attention to the news. Any news. They log onto Facebook and consume memes and other links from friends who are intent on downplaying the coronavirus, and claiming that it’s a fake crisis fabricated by lying journalists, scientists, and academics. They post videos from “Dr. Drew” Pinsky, who claims coronavirus is a “press-created hysteria.” They think the CDC and the epidemiologists, virologists, and other medical experts’ warnings about the risks of coronavirus are wrong, because they’re simply making up statistics when they provide estimates for the number of Americans who may be infected. [34]That’s the impact of social media and that is also true to independent media. People who don’t trust the system will go and find something else they can trust, something they believe isn’t fake news. So, how does this explain the reason why the pandemic is worse?Let’s imagine a scenario where a news agency has been instructed by the highest levels of government to issue a government warning which concerns safety. However, this news agency is that not trusted by the masses. And then someone in social media labels it as conspiracy theory and people happen to be following this person and not the news agency. There is a chance people will do what the government through news agency channels told them no to do.So, back to mainstream media, how many times fear or panic has been used?I cannot find an American version of how many times the word ‘fear’ and ‘panic’ and related words were used, but I found a British version.Since reports first started circulating about the new mystery illness on January 12, and up until February 13, 2020, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen from The Conversation, have tracked reporting in major English-language newspapers around the world, using the LexisNexis UK database. This includes almost 100 high-circulation newspapers from around the world, which have collectively published 9,387 stories about the outbreak. Of these, 1,066 articles mention “fear” or related words, including “afraid”. [35]Such stories often used other frightening language – for example, 50 articles used the phrase “killer virus”. One article in The Telegraph[36] newspaper was typical of this fear-inducing language, in describing scenes on the ground in Wuhan shared on social media:“Mask-wearing patients fainting in the street. Hundreds of fearful citizens lining cheek by jowl, at risk of infecting each other, in narrow hospital corridors as they wait to be treated by doctors in forbidding white hazmat suits. A fraught medic screaming in anguish.”Which leads me to my final point. Fear. [37]Fear make people do stupid things. Fear makes people distrustful about their surroundings. They trust no one, and sometimes, they don’t trust themselves either. The deeper they are in the state of paranoia, the more fearful they become.We want to be in an environment were we this is no uncertainty. As much as people say they don’t like mundane things, according to research, people fear novelty. People fear things they don’t know. And they would like to know.However, some people who thinks they know something will share to everyone what he claims he knows. The person in the other end who knows nothing will believe he knows something as he gains that false sense of awareness.Dying from the coronavirus is a very dreadful way to die. And so, people, if they can, find somewhere else far from the epicenter of the virus. But we have a problem here. People can already infect other people without symptoms. SARS-Cov-2 is contagious while asymptomatic.As we loss more and more of that trust, and as dreadful scenes and news bombards the people, they start to loss their sense of control. People prefer to have control with their lives, to live in a stable environment.People leave the epicenter, only to send it to uninfected areas.People don’t listen to authorities believing they know better, spread it everywhere.People who are paranoid will go and rush to the store, buying more than they need, and sometimes they buy more than they could ever consume.This is how America has a worser pandemic compared to China. It is a conglomeration of factors This is America’s perfect storm. The American society allowed the conditions that becomes a fertile breeding ground for the coronavirus.Footnotes[1] https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6[2] Pneumonia of unknown cause – China[3] Whole genome of novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, sequenced[4] Novel Coronavirus – Thailand (ex-China)[5] Coronavirus Disease 2019[6] Coronavirus Disease 2019[7] Coronavirus Disease 2019[8] 直击武汉天河机场：“封城”前有96架航班飞往全国_腾讯网[9] Donald J. 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