The ‘Blitz Spirit’ Won’t Protect Britain From the Coronavirus
As the government inevitably restricts Britons’ lives, the country must reject the voices arguing that it is overreacting.
The story of the “Y2K bug” is a parable from which most of us have taken the wrong lesson. No, the world didn’t overreact to a nonexistent threat of computers crashing as 1999 became 2000. Experts identified a problem and took steps to solve it. The measure of their success is that Y2K now feels like a nonevent.
The same logic holds for pandemics. If a government successfully limits the spread of the coronavirus, and the most about who most deserves treatment.
