By the way, there's another new looming crisis that anyone can see coming.
How bad will it be? That's the kind of thing you need more data for. The President of the United States could get that data, so I hope he has, and that his lack of visible action means that he has evaluated the data and the answers from the team of experts assembled, and concluded that it will not cause the type of crisis that requires active intervention now.
Sooner or later, the rate of infection among cashiers, food handlers, truckers, and production workers at food plants will reach a level where the remaining workers decide it isn't worth the risk to show up to work. The result would be that our problems got a whole lot worse than anything we are dealing with now.
A few weeks ago, I would have dismissed that sort of talk as sensationalism. On the other hand, three weeks aog, when I couldn't get toilet paper at Costco, I said that that situation would be resolved within a week. I was obviously wrong, and there is obviously a problem.
Is the country prepared? Has the government carefully evaluated the problem and concluded it's not an issue? There's simply no way for you and I, sitting out here in the world, to know the answer to those questions, but I have zero confidence that the guy at the helm has even thought of it.
