When the pandemic hit the west we were told that the virus had a morbidity rate of under one percent. Then we were told it was more like three and a half percent. Now we're told it is roughly ten times as deadly as the flu. In other words, we don't know.
We do know this, however. When the epidemic first hit China that country estab lished a world record by building whole hospitals from the bottom up in a couple of weeks. The viral spread was rapid, and the government's response to it was both rapid and brutal. If someone ...