We need to look forward here. It's way too early for a retrospective. And let's have some humility here. No matter what such a retrospective shows, it's pretty

We need to look forward here. It's way too early for a retrospective. And let's have some humility here. No matter what such a retrospective shows, it's pretty hard to learn any real lessons from this kind of thing. We will almost certainly just overfit our institutions to fight the next coronavirus; I doubt we will better at handling crises in general. It's still possible that the US will have a reasonable outcome. Let's do what we can to make that happen and make use of our advantages. More cars and less public transport may make physical distancing more effective.