We have entered the seventh month of coronavirus panic, with large parts of America still partly or wholly shut down. What began as a 15-day expedient designed to “flatten the curve,” has gradually become the norm in American life. The goalposts have continued to shift. First, the focus was on hospital overcrowding; then it moved to overall deaths; then it moved to number of positive cases; now it seems to be shifting to the availability of a vaccine. The real endgame appears to be the November election. Pandemics have been with us since the beginning of recorded history. While this one has been serious -- in terms of deaths per million, its about on par with the 1957-8 Asian flu pandemic -- fortunately, it has been orders of magnitude less virulent than the 1918 Spanish flu. Some day, however, the pandemic will be behind us. When we look back, how will our unprecedented response to this virus be remembered? Will it be remembered as an authoritarian and financial...(Read Full Article)