You gotta wonder how we got through the last decade with major virus hitting the country every year,was it luck or just common sense?
Went out yesterday to a local dining spot talked to waitress who wondered why all the panic as she recalled the swine flu and knew the numbers involved then.
We agreed we need to be cautious but seeing stores here in Fla empty out faster than hurricane prep shows how easily minds can be manipulated vs the reality of mortality rates due to the flu or in the above case the “ protected nature” of the Obama years.
The media has its story to attract attention and subtley dig at trump while he masterly exposes the weaknesses of government control.
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Long-term effects will include even fewer movie theaters, since marginal movie releases will not warrant sitting in a cloth recliner that may or may not have been wiped down since the last user sat there, more reliance on on-line classrooms, and very hopefully....
More reliance on American manufacturing to deliver stuff to Americans, and less reliance on people who don't like us to make our cell phones, medicines, cheap plastic crap that we buy from end-caps in stores, and cheap clothing.
This country spent most of the 20th century eradicating or mitigating most diseases that had plagued mankind for centuries. Then, our enlightened ivy league leadership let those diseases walk back across our southern border so we have to start over again. Common sense might become common again. Maybe.