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When it's
over, will we be the same America?
By Patrick
J. Buchanan
"Depend upon it, sir, when a man
knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,
it concentrates his mind wonderfully,"
- Samuel Johnson.
And as it
is with men, so it is with nations.
April 02,
2020 "Information
Clearing House"
- Monday, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus
response coordinator, projected some 100,000 to
200,000 U.S. deaths from the pandemic, "if we do
things almost perfectly." She agreed with Dr.
Anthony Fauci's estimate that, if we do "nothing,"
the American dead could reach 2.2 million.
That 2
million figure would be twice as many dead as have
perished in all our wars from the American
Revolution to the Civil War, World War I and II, and
Korea and Vietnam.
This does
indeed concentrate the mind wonderfully.
Now add to
this slaughter of our countrymen a market plunge
steeper than the 1929 Crash and a 1930s-style
Depression. Wall Street analysts are talking of a
wipeout of 30% of our GDP and unemployment reaching
35%.
What a
difference a month can make.
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