“ the entire Italian economy, crushed.”
Regardless of the true nature of this virus and the illness it creates, when it becomes necessary for a government to put the knife in its own economy in response, that is when governments collapse...even entire societies. Trump may be forced into this, and if so he might as well write his own resignation along with it as the government can not survive the shutdown of the economy. When masses of people become destitute, and they will very quickly under those circumstances, then all normalcy and control of events is lost...and the government falls.
Which is why all of us have been hollering for the last six weeks to take stronger measures upfront to avoid this! It would have made a much smaller dent on the economy than having to shut it all down.
Why our borders were left open so long will forever confound me.
Can you imagine Biden, or Pelosi running this?
Sweet Jesus...
As I predicted on Jan 24th...on this site...governments will fall. Economies will collapse.
In the aftermath, war is far more likely.
The only effective containment we have seen thus far, and it’s suspect, has been the severe and draconian measures taken by a few Asian countries.
It remains to be seen if western governments have the will for it. And whether people in western societies will put up with it.