As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

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• SEPTEMBER 9, 2020HEALTH

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Army ants willsometimes walk in circles until they die. The workers navigate by smelling the pheromone trails of workers in front of them, while laying down pheromones for others to follow. If these trails accidentally loop back on themselves, the ants aretrapped. They become a thick, swirling vortex of bodies thatresembles a hurricaneas viewed from space. They march endlessly until they’re felled by exhaustion or…