re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The book is fabulous about how ability to deal with a crisis. And right now, I am watching Trumpists look to the antimalaria drugs in the same way that the book dealt with phalanx - it was a placebo that did nothing to stop the spread.

And I find it ironic that the NY outbreak centered on New Rochelle, which is just down the road from Yonkers.

But that book assumed that the government would at least be aggressive in trying to fight the disease. Instead, we have a federal government that is failing in every way imaginable, and it’s up to the individual states to try and hold things together.