Greed

In 2019, still settling into his new home in the state’s creepy, gothic governor’s mansion, Gavin Newsom told an Axios interviewer, “California is what America is going to look like.” Then, perhaps reflecting on his Hollywood benefactors, he added for emphasis, “California is America’s coming attraction.”

One of Albert Einstein's many aphorisms, "three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed," is particularly apt in the COVID-19 era.