"It became clear about two weeks ago that doughty South Korea had got the better of the coronavirus and that its spread could be contained, and China has confirmed that, but the government of the people’s republic has been so untrustworthy, no sane person could repose much confidence in anything it said. But foreign observers in China and the renewed output of Chinese manufacturets seem to confirm that the virus has crested there, in the land of its origins. (China was also the fecund source of avian flu and SARS). With these developments and the news that anti-malarial medicine may alleviate the coronavirus, the United States has an opportunity to replicate the path of South Korea, and is moving quickly to develop vaccines and to augment its supplies of emergency equipment and get ahead of anticipated numbers of virus-sufferers. The desperate climate of 10 days ago seemed a mixture of the novelist Nevil Shute’s “On the Beach,” about the extinction of man by nuclear radiation, and the great Dutch tulip mania of 1637, when bulbs of the newly developed tulip fetched astronomical sums. Now there is the purposefulness of a defined objective, not the helplessness of the damned."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-getting-a-handle-on-covid-19s-economic-fallout
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-getting-a-handle-on-covid-19s-economic-fallout
