On January 31, President Trump declared the Covid-19 coronavirus a
U.S. public health emergency and issued a ban on travel between the
United States and China. Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden,
speaking at an Iowa campaign event, severely criticized Trump’s action,
calling it “hysteria and xenophobia.” It quickly became evident that the
coronavirus was extraordinarily contagious and potentially deadly. A
special problem has been that its spread is often asymptomatic. In the
greatest and quickest successful cooperative national mobilization of
government, industry, commerce, science, and medicine since World War
II, the Trump Administration, made sure every logistical need to fight
the virus was available. After several months experience and data, the
virus turned out to be deadly primarily to those who already have other
health problems or weakened immune systems, which are most common among
older people. Further actions to limit the spread of the virus by
shutting down schools and portions of the economy were devastating to
the economy, but lifting these restrictions now has the economy roaring
back.
My background in not in any sort of biological science. I have an MBA
in Finance and Accounting from Stanford and a BS in Psychology and Math
from the University of Georgia. I am a former air Force intelligence
officer with some knowledge of China and the former Soviet Union, so I
am more curious about such matters than most people.
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