It's not the greatest disaster ever, as I wrote.

In many parts of the world the economic side effects are much more dire than the health impact. Then again, we are talking countries with lower life expectancies and lower average ages, so they are less vulnerable.

When some people are in the middle of something and it grabs all their attention they lose perspective. Most reporters fall in this category.

The bombing of Coventry resulted in several mass burials of bodies that could not be identified, hundreds at a time. 2294 buildings were destroyed and another 45,704 were damaged. Our Capitol building has some broken glass but still stands. We will get through covid and the mobs and everything else. Life in America is still so good we are the immigration beacon of the world (not New Zealand).