Recover

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 NY Times: Why America Can’t Recover From That First Awful Covid Year By Eric Klinenberg - Mr. Klinenberg is the author of the forthcoming book “2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.”

The answer was always the same: Figure it out. Stimulus checks and small-business loans did help. But while other countries built trust and solidarity, America — both during and after 2020 — left millions to fend for themselves.