This is the 2020 equivalent of 2001, when GWB urged everyone to keep shopping after 9/11. We've lost the ability to meet a national crisis with shared sacrifice. "Life must go on" is the shared ethos now.
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1343570564682809347
Not coincidence that Taiwan and South Korea, where everyone is keenly aware of potential military attack and expected to do their part, handled this pandemic better than others.
"Life must go on" was exactly the wrong response. Normal life should have come to a screeching halt until the threat was controlled, with *everyone* part of the response.
But that would have required a kind of leadership we don't presently have. Even FDR had a rough time. So here we are.
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