Hard to do the politics of covid without more info.
We can expect media ‘panic’ during March as the reported cases, and deaths, rise hugely.
I don’t ‘supply chain’ problems will be a big deal. OTOH ‘demand’ problems will be evident in economic numbers.
Lots of reasons for the US to do much better than others, looking like this will just be a VERY BAD flu season.
Over-emphasizing the danger now just makes Trump look better later.
But we don’t understand the disease well enough to extrapolate to politics. Keep an eye on the disease’s progress in other countries and learn more for now.
Watch Italy—two to three weeks ahead of us—apples to apples.
supply chain problems ARE demand problems.
When the demand for antibiotics exceeds the supply of antibiotics ...there is a problem.
If we run out of antibiotics it will be medicine 1920’s style.
Let’s pray it doesn’t come to that.
And that’s without another American sniffling from the WooWoo.