Welcome to America, the Land of Leaders Who Insist on the Demonstrably Untrue

The federal coronavirus response reminds me of my father after his stroke, when he’d say things that were simply incompatible with reality

Jennifer Mendelsohn
GEN
Published in
5 min readApr 27, 2020

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In January of 2012, my healthy and spry 82-year-old father suffered a catastrophic hemorrhagic stroke…

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Jennifer Mendelsohn
GEN
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Old school journo. #resistancegenealogy creator. Recovering Long Islander. No, your name wasn’t changed at Ellis Island.