Evaluations

It will take years, hopefully not many, to learn the lessons of the pandemic. Leading newspapers, high-end economists, and finally contemporary historians will examine the question from all relevant angles and deliver their final judgment. But SARS-CoV-2 itself is teaching us to think fast to react to its lethal whims – “the bastard,” they call him at the National Center for Biotechnology – and even to anticipate the next male goats that may come. Two and a half million deaths …