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Imagine living through years of famine, starving, scared, not knowing when salvation will come, hoping, wondering, praying, and yearning for respite from a plague that has forced everyone to face their vulnerabilities every day. The ground underfoot parched, dry, cracked, brittle. Stories abound of people dying everywhere. Then, imagine a national plan. Imagine a leader who assumes responsibility to protect and save his subjects, citizens and immigrants alike. That leader recognizes visionary creativity in an incarcerated immigrant and elevates him to a position of power and authority to collect, store and distribute the nourishment necessary to keep everyone alive. Imagine that leader offering distribution not only to his own subjects, but to all refugees seeking asylum and food. Then, that advisor, the viceroy of the entire society second only to the supreme leader himself, collects, stores, and distributes food. He brings his estranged family to relocate in an elite, well-pr
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Two recent news items directed what otherwise might appear to be two disparate topics in this week’s column our responsibility to ourselves and others, on the one hand, and an issue raised by a 2019 film set in Austria during World War II on the other,
ITEM: in the first five days of December, the United States added one million new covid-19 cases a record that should scare everyone. This also should scare everyone: Two people died during the time it took me to write that last sentence. That is because, on average, one person dies from covid-19 in this country every 30 seconds the highest death rate since the start of the pandemic here. Total deaths so far will likely top 300,00