Sometime today will mark a crossroads ... when there should be as many or more total deaths from the coronavirus as there were from the swine flu in 2009 ... around 14,000. But somehow I don’t recall quite the same level of economic dislocation and medical panic back then.
How come? Was it because Obama was president then and not Trump? Beats me! I do find it fascinating how the reaction today is so dramatically different as it was back then. Yes, case loads and deaths will continue to go up under COVID-19 ... to 100,000 or above. But, others are saying that fatalities could be significantly lower. (Just saw one at 60,000.)
And are we going to restart the economy anytime soon? I have predicted that sometime next week we will have a view of the economic road ahead emanating out of the Trump administration ... not that no one will die during this ramp-up. But , like you dear readers, we just hope that it will not include any of us. Stay well!
