{"id":12337,"date":"2020-04-29T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12337"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:04:53","slug":"our-corona-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-corona-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Our \u2018Corona Project\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever&nbsp;we eventually call it, there is a coronavirus \u201cproject.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Chemotherapy<\/em><\/strong><br>It\u2019s a race to identify the origins, nature, and danger of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the best way to treat, vaccinate against, and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 disease \u2014 all without destroying America to save it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However the Corona Project is defined, it remains different from all previous existential American efforts. We are not building any new weapon or infrastructure or deliberately adopting a radical new policy. Much less are Americans fighting a visible enemy, poverty, or just bad habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, we are giving ourselves massive social and economic chemotherapy to weaken or retard the virus within us before our massive therapeutic shutdown kills the U.S. economy \u2014 a sort of neutron bomb that destroys human interaction without incinerating visible infrastructure. In other words, we the patient apparently must be sickened to the point of near death in order to survive the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is certainly difficult to compare similar American mass efforts in the past. Their costs are murky \u2014 and not just because of inadequate record keeping, the adjustment of prior dollars to current time and inflation, or the need to consider the relationship between lives and money. In addition, the tab for past \u201cwars on\u201d something or other (e.g., alcohol, illiteracy, smoking, poverty, drugs, etc.) usually rippled out for years, both positively and negatively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-crisis-americas-high-risk-high-cost-project\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Whatever&nbsp;we eventually call it, there is a coronavirus \u201cproject.\u201d ChemotherapyIt\u2019s a race to identify the origins, nature, and danger of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the best way to treat, vaccinate against, and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 disease \u2014 all without destroying America to save it. However the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3cZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12398,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-the-spreading-debt-virus-5-potential-cures-for-30-trillion-problem\/","url_meta":{"origin":12337,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: The spreading debt virus \u2014 5 potential cures for $30 trillion problem","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News The current\u00a0U.S. budget deficit\u00a0could soon exceed a record $4 trillion. 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What is certain, however, is that a number of individuals and entities have behaved shamefully and demonstrated\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12291,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/america-is-still-a-global-leader\/","url_meta":{"origin":12337,"position":4},"title":"America Is Still a Global Leader","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the world fight against the coronavirus in its accustomed role as the post-war global leader. 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