In the space of just a few weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged much of the world into a state suspended paralysis. The crisis has laid bare just how unprepared we in the developed world are in the event of a major global catastrophe. If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that bureaucratic infighting and delays in prudent policymaking has deadly and economically ruinous consequences.
When the first signs of an outbreak began in China in late 2019, the earliest warnings were covered up by a paranoid Communist regime intent on keeping the world uninformed about the deadly nature of the disease. And despite numerous signals, Europe and the US chose not to heed the warnings.