For those who are inclined to see every crisis as an opportunity to advance their parochial political objectives, the Coronavirus outbreak is the mother of all opportunities.
Social media is mobbed by the over-confident and under-educated, some of whom are capitalizing on the opportunity presented by images of ransacked supermarket shelves to make favorable comparisons with more socialistic societies . These snarky tweeters don’t seem to know they’re suggesting that the tangible effects of socialism are akin to a perpetual pandemic.
It is nevertheless true that those who are taking this acute crisis seriously have dropped their ideological objections to economic […]
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