It’s a question that echoes across other landscapes. With another super-infectious variant on the rise, Americans might well be asking themselves, “What does victory in the fight against COVID look like?” This month, the United States is passing the grim milestone of a million COVID deaths, the largest total of any country. Around 400,000 Americans have died of the disease since Biden’s announcement – that’s more than any country other than India and Brazil has lost during the entire pandemic. Several new variants of COVID-19 subsequently swept through the United States. Bush’s infamous declaration of “mission accomplished” in the Iraq War on May 1, 2003, a premature pronouncement. “Today, while the virus hasn’t been vanquished, we know this: It no longer controls our lives, it no longer paralyzes our nation and it’s within our power to make sure it never does so again,” he said. Last year on July 4, for example, Joe Biden declared a kind of victory over COVID-19 in his speech celebrating Independence Day. And in the end, no one is declared a winner.īut that doesn’t prevent politicians from attempting to prove their decisiveness and the efficacy of their policies by announcing that they have accomplished one mission or another. In real life, the fog of war or the fog of disease or the fog of recession descends upon the populace. In real life, however, undisputed victories are rare. Individuals and teams battle one another to achieve clear and undisputed victories. The Olympics are designed specifically to produce winners. This year, there will be no medal winners: no gold, no silver, no bronze. The result of the game is just…undecided. Players from both sides lie on the court, injured, some of them badly. When the fog finally clears a few frustrating minutes later, the game appears to be over. They try to clear away the fog with their hands, but to no avail. The fans stand up to see what’s happening on the court. The score is tied in the final minutes, and tension is mounting among the flag-waving partisans in the stands.įrance is in possession of the ball when something strange happens. Imagine an Olympic final in basketball, not unlike the one last summer between the United States and France.
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