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Have Israeli Scientists Discovered the Fountain of Youth?
While studying COVID-19 in elderly patients, a team of Israeli scientists may have stumbled upon something miraculous.
In the United States, as in the world, the wealth gap has never been wider.
The wealth gap is so wide, in fact, it can barely be rendered by graph. If the wealth of the wealthiest were represented by, let’s say, the Empire State Building, the wealth of the rest of us would be a rendering too small to be viewed by the naked eye.
Likewise, if the wealth of the rest of us were represented by this comma, the wealthiest of the topmost one percent would need a comma the size of the moon for comparison. Or Jupiter.
COVID-19 mitigation made the wealth gap even worse.
COVID-19 mitigation measures, taken to varying degrees worldwide, have impacted impoverished communities with a level of multi-faceted devastation that will take decades to overcome, if indeed the world’s poor ever do.
From low-income kids kept out of public schools for over a year- while their wealthier counterparts attended private schools, hired tutors, and participated in learning pods- to the working poor in developing nations whose aspirations towards the middle class have been reclaimed by generational poverty- COVID-19 mitigation worsened…