Does the coronavirus contain a silver lining?

If this crisis is to produce a positive turning point and not an apocalypse, governments must quickly reverse course.

The U.S. President Donald Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson governments’ failures to recognize the need for widespread co-operation will only exacerbate the impact this pandemic will have on both the health and the economies of their citizens, writes Joseph Ingram. White House photograph by Joyce N. Boghosian and Flickr photograph by Arno Mikkor

Opinion

BY JOSEPH INGRAM

April 1, 2020

In a 2012 Huffington Post column (“What 2012 can learn from 2011”)—thought by many at the time to be the year of the apocalypse—I observed that it might instead prove to be the year of a global...

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