{"id":12246,"date":"2020-03-14T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12246"},"modified":"2020-03-12T23:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:12:36","slug":"the-great-coronavirus-war-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-great-coronavirus-war-is-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Coronavirus War Is upon Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy \u2014 which, of course, is exactly what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But imagine for a moment that we are in real war with a cognizant, thinking, and clever enemy whose sole reason to live is to hurt, maim, or kill as many of us as it can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19 may not have jets, tanks, or nukes, like our past enemies. But its arsenal, numbers, cunning, and willpower are said to be formidable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To win its war against Americans, COVID-19 must infect and sicken lots of Americans each day. If it cannot infect enough victims to multiply and sustain a hungry army of viruses, COVID-19 will soon sputter and die. It will get trapped in just a few hosts among an otherwise victorious and healthy nation of about 330 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature has given COVID-19 some weapons that its defeated cousins \u2014 the H1N1 swine flu and the MERS and SARS viruses \u2014 lacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy \u2014 which, of course, is exactly what it is. 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