April 2nd, 2020
Global Cases: 961,000; Global Deaths: 49,165
So…yesterday the UN Secretary General described the Covid pandemic as the worst crisis since WW2. And that about sums up the general mood out there. Trump has cast off the cloak of breezy American exceptionalism and is now appearing with charts that describe projected infection and death rates. Shits just got serious. In the UK, they are as always comparing themselves to the Germans and not liking what they see. Their PM and Health Minister both contracted the virus and their response, though at this point little different from anywhere else, suffers still from the characterisation of their initial approach as ‘pursuing herd immunity’…which people of course heard as ‘culling the herd’. Stay away from bovine comparisons in a time of pandemic.