Greatest challenge facing us may not be the virus, but our inability to adapt and invent

The political fallout from the Covid-19 regulations stems from a decision to negotiate pandemic policy with lobbyists and economists, rather than scientists. In the Spring of 2020, a medical crisis was successfully suppressed with strong tailwinds of goodwill, financial supports and a warm season. By early August, the rolling average was just 50 cases a day1 (it is currently thirty times this number).