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Subject: The Daily 202: As a baseball season like no other begins, escaping coronavirus proves 
impossible 
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:45:53 +0000 
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The Daily 202  
Intelligence for leaders. 
Presented by American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network 
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As a baseball season like no other begins, 
escaping coronavirus proves impossible 
A reporter approached Sen. Mitt Romney in the Capitol on Wednesday 
afternoon to ask: "Do you have confidence in the president's handling of 
this crisis right now?" 
"Which? There are so many crises going on," replied Romney (R-Utah). 
"I'm not sure which." 
L. :Mitt Romney arrives for this week's Senate Republican lunch. (Stefani 
[Reynolds/Bloomberg) 
Mitt Romney arrives for this week's Senate Republican lunch. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg) 
The 2012 GOP presidential nominee was not trying to be flip and lamented 
President Trump's response to the novel coronavirus when the reporter 
clarified. But our nation faces cascading crises: the worst civil unrest since 
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1968, the worst economic upheaval since 1933 and the worst public health 
emergency since 1918. This morning's jobs report shows another 1.4 
million workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, the 18th 
straight week that more than a million Americans have filed claims. 
Other ongoing crises get less attention because of the contagion, but that 
does not mean they have been solved. There is an opioid crisis causing 
deaths of despair, the climate crisis that imperils the future of the planet, a 
looming sovereign debt crisis that most political leaders seem nonchalant 
about, rising great-power conflict with China, including a new space race, 
and fresh complications overnight in Afghanistan as America struggles to 
exit her longest war. 
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