Four hard choices in the Covid War


Almost all governments have rightly chosen to protect lives by locking down the economy. But with OECD estimates of a loss of 2% of GDP for every month of lockdown, the economic costs are mounting.This explains why the US President Trump is rooting for opening up as early as possible.

WHO could have imagined that the Cold War could morph into a Cool War and now a Covid War? The Cold War was fought between the United States and the former Soviet Union, ending with the latter’s dissolution. The Cool War is still festering with the US-China trade conflicts.

The Covid-19 war is not about fighting each other, but about protecting their own citizens against a virus that does not distinguish between borders and political beliefs.

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