The editor of the prestigious Lancet medical journal said a study Trump cited to justify pulling out of the WHO doesn't exist

This is something that I've been thinking about a lately. It maybe be over the top, but I just cannot see how America can survive in it's current form, so easily divided with such entrenched sides.

Once upon a time propaganda had limited reach, but now a Russian teen could throw together a slick looking disinformation video and you know it will get picked up and go viral .

People are so strongly individual that they would rather think they know best because of Facebook and Twitter and continue fucking things up rather than listen to experts and health officials like in Europe and Asia.

How can a country so easily divided at every level of government survive the next Age of big data, AI and 5B when so much potential is lost for the sake of partisan bickering?

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