Yesterday was a perfect illustration of how exciting (and bewildering) it can be to read the U.S. national news. Here’s a multiple-choice quiz about it.
Which of the following occurred yesterday?
(a) The U.S. hit a new peak of 44,702 new known coronavirus cases, the most in one day, as its Vice President claimed “remarkable progress” and its President avoided the press.
(b) Donald Trump issued an executive order to prosecute “anarchists and left-wing extremists” damaging “American monuments, memorials, and statues.”
(c) It was announced that a Russian spy agency had offered the Taliban financial bounties for killing U.S. soldiers. Knowing this, Trump has continued to cozy up to Putin.
(d) The EU confirmed it will bar U.S. travelers from entering its member countries.
(e) A federal judge ruled the U.S. must release children from family detention centers, and the Minneapolis city council voted to dismantle their police force.
(f) All of the above.
Hint: There is no wrong answer. It’s a version of Russian roulette where no matter which chamber of the revolver you choose, it will have a bullet. One of them has six (though at least one of them is not necessarily bad; if you could choose between them, that would be the one… but that’s not how Russian roulette works).
As for today’s Russian roulette: The number of known coronavirus cases in the world will top 10 million, and deaths will top 500,000. Guaranteed. Each of the 6 chambers, same thing.
There is no wrong answer. It’s a version of Russian roulette where no matter which chamber of the revolver you choose, it will have a bullet. One of them has six (though at least one of them is not necessarily bad; if you could choose between them, that would be the one… but that’s not how Russian roulette works).