ArmsAlone Cannot Keep Us Safe:
Lessons Learned from Coronavirus What we are experiencing now is not a prologue to a novel.This is reality. The place is ourworld, the time is now, and a happy ending is not promised. The streets in my Southern California neighborhood are unusually quiet because most of my neighbors are driving around in hopes of finding stores with bottled water, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, tissues and food. My wife and I also searched store after store for those items this morning. Box stores like Costco and Walmartare rationing some items, something I have never seen before. President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency. The stock market endured its worstlosses in 12 years. The pandemic led Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to accelerate his push for free health care coverage for every citizen. The panic makes me wonder what the U.S. would be like if we were facing an impending missile attack from NorthKorea, China or Iran’s mullahs.It seems we never im...