Real World Takeways from Coronavirus

So, what are the real lessons to be learned from the coronavirus? First, The resolution to susceptible supply chains running through authoritarian one-party countries is, for America to consider susceptibility to breach security and therefore cause conceivable distress when formulating laws related to the exchange of goods or services involved in international trade including taxes, subsidies and import/export regulations. We should favor governments that are transparent in their distribution of information. China is celebrated for its extraordinary crackdown on public life, which has brought transmissions down dramatically. However, if it were not for China’s highly persuasive political propagandist efforts to suppress news about the coronavirus in the first place, the coronavirus perhaps would not have become a pandemic.

Second, we must cease indulging anti-scientific rumormongering elocution about vaccines in general. The diminution of the COVID-19 will be contingent on the research and development of a vaccine. Matters related to vaccines are often entangled in a web of disinformation and misinformation and should be ordinarily disregarded. We should remember that crises exacerbate the causative agents for human behavior; they seldom create them.

Economic unpredictability in the aftereffects of the coronavirus has simply unmasked the fundamental failings of the Chinese, European, and dare I say, U.S. economies; those systemic problems won’t be solved through a quick and/or temporary solution to a problem that does not address or resolve the underlying cause of the said problem. There are no band-aid solutions.

The public health issues with homelessness will likely be exposed dramatically in the United States, especially so in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara, San Diego, Seattle, and NYC; they won’t go away when the coronavirus ends. The coronavirus should underscore the necessity for action in the absence of a crisis.

Finally, we should remember that Church, charity and local community support matter. Large-scale government response will never be as efficient or as personal as a local response. Care for our neighbors, care for our families and pray for those afflicted with the virus. Implement personal behavior that lowers risk. And then wait for more information. Perhaps that’s the best lesson from all of this: Jumping to conclusions based on lack of information is a serious mistake. In conclusion, it is better to err on the side of caution.