[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyqzPu5pX6U?start=188&w=560&h=315] “There are times when we are 50 states, and there are times when we are one country and have national needs” — President Bartlett (_West Wing_In our current fight against COVID, we have forgotten this. We like to pretend that people from New York don’t travel to Pennsylvania, and that people from Ohio don’t take a road trip to the Ikea in Pittsburgh. It seems we have forgotten what it is to be one nation fighting a common enemy. One million people are already dead, and it looks like things may be getting bad again—at a time when everyone seems to have decided we can make this thing go away through some kind of magical thinking:US Covid death toll reaches 1 million, and a new subvariant is spreading fast: