"If America Looks The Same After The Defeat Of COVID-19, It Will Be A Pyrrhic Victory"

The Ideas That Won’t Survive the Coronavirus

Covid-19 is killing off the myth that we are the greatest country on earth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/coronavirus-america.html

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

Contributing Opinion Writer

Excerpt: "But if our society looks the same after the defeat of Covid-19, it will be a Pyrrhic victory. We can expect a sequel, and not just one sequel, but many, until we reach the finale: climate catastrophe. If our fumbling of the coronavirus is a preview of how the United States will handle that disaster, then we are doomed."