The data and the briefing
On a Saturday morning in February 2020, a career epidemiologist named Nancy Messonnier held a press briefing and said what nobody in the administration wanted her to say: disruption to everyday life may be severe. The stock market dropped 1,000 points....
725 to 1
The federal government employs roughly 2.9 million civilian workers. A new president appoints about 4,000 of them. That is a ratio of 725 to 1....