General Discussion

If they can learn from our mistakes, thereby improving their governments and the quality of people staffing them in a steady and sensible manner, hope remains.

Perhaps in time we too can reclaim some fragments of what we lost in just the last 3 months, but it will be the long and difficult struggle of decades to come. The institutional damage has been, and will continue to be, immense. We have not hit the darkest hours yet.

I hope when Americans rebuild, the rebuilders will include protection to ensure this calamity can never happen again. What that looks like, I can't fully imagine, but they will have the lessons of history on their side and possibly the goodwill of advanced nations as allies to bootstrap their efforts.