And it also opens the door for a new FReeper handle for someone: Gentile Ben!
This is my take — the left in general worked themselves up into a frenzy over their largely fictitious climate emergency, went as far as inflicting Greta Thunberg on the world, and the world more or less yawned and went on. So that deep-seated fear and angst about an end to the human race if we don’t radically change our ways has jumped over into this business, spinning up what appears to be a rather medium sized health challenge into another “we will surely all die” panic. Since two-thirds of elected governments are now of the progressive variety, this has quickly risen from the shadows to become the new normal.
Trump has been stampeded into going along, although I don’t think he would go as far as some of these maniacs are suggesting. When that moment comes, and he has to decide, the situation is going to jump back from the media panic stage to the political battle that was going on before this started. And it’s going to be a fight between realists who know this can’t be sustained very long, and crazy people who think there is some unlimited amount of government aid available, combined with a zeal to prevent every human illness or death, in itself an impossible task.
I expect this will lead to a full-scale political crisis in America some time in mid to late April.