A crisis reveals hidden things about nations and shatters outdated beliefs about the state of the world. So it is with COVID-19, as America confronts the harsh fact that its response to COVID-19 has been inferior to China’s.
Here are two status reports about COVID-19, plus two peeks ahead to the future after the epidemic.
A recession is certain. Unless the epidemic breaks soon, a depression seems likely. Lessons from history tell us how to fight it. But much of our experience is inappropriate and we will have to improvise. Here is the brief.
The information superhighway provides everyone with data on a scale unavailable to anyone before the modern era. Unfortunately, it appears to be making us dumber. Seeing our responses to COVID-19 shows how. We can’t afford this.
Much as America can learn from the fast powerful responses by the nations of East Asia to COVID-19, now we can learn from Europe about presidential leadership.
