The A1 Verse: Pandemic of words, words, words
By Thomas Gaulkin | October 26, 2020
Photo of Donald Trump by Saul Loeb / AFP
Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred today, October 26, 2020.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
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Trump Approach to Virus Faulted in New Outbreak
(From the original by Michael D. Shear, Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman and Sheryl Gay Stolberg)
“Covid, Covid, Covid,
Covid, Covid,
Covid.”
Expressing dismay:
“Covid, Covid, Covid.”
Covid, verb
to prevent to control
to wave the white flag
to rage
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Keywords: COVID-19, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, The A1 Verse, media
Topics: Biosecurity, Special Topics
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Thomas Gaulkin is multimedia editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Prior to joining the Bulletin in 2018, he spent the... Read More
