> the US was hard-hit, but the US will be one of the first countries back to normalcy, and the rest of the world will quickly follow. Though I very much like t

> the US was hard-hit, but the US will be one of the first countries back to normalcy, and the rest of the world will quickly follow. Though I very much like this optimistic take, this is a bit revisionist. Specifically, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and a few others (including parts of mainland China) have already returned to “normalcy” in that their economies are growing and that all have high public confidence that contagion has been controlled.