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The president’s illuminating discourse on the Afghanistan Peace agreement yesterday did much to shed light on the spread of the Corona virus. It is truly comforting to know our safe protection from the transmission of deadly pathogens is assured. The information he shared about the current scope of the epidemic, inaccurate as it was, served to reassure the public as he said “we’ll be fine.” It was particularly reassuring to learn the government has mounted the biggest such response in history to control the virus and comforting to learn we are still the primary travel destination in the world. The president reminded us not to panic and stated reassuringly that the matter was being handled “very professionally.”

The vice-president awakened from his usual torpor to also reassure us no foreign nationals will be allowed to come here from Iran.

The president’s inability to distinguish the ways in which he sees the Democrats as politicizing the epidemic from the ways in which he is doing so himself notwithstanding, we should all sleep better tonight in the knowledge that, in his hands, the situation is being well-managed and they are “super prepared,” to deal with whatever unfolds.

Tim Konrad