Never mind the uncontrollable nature of this epidemic.
I’ve been expecting something like this for a while now, after seeing it pulled on us in 2007-08.
But, Trump is not a detached, over-his-head technocrat like Herbert Hoover, or looking for an excuse to lose like McCain...I don’t see him standing by indifferently (or imposing counterproductive policies in the face of wizened sages’ warnings, a la the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and tax hikes) in the face of disaster.