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Topic
Board Politics & Society
War on Plague
by
nullius
on 16/03/2020, 00:40:46 UTC
Watching the Democratic debate and Joe Biden is referring to battling the coronavirus a “war”. Brian Mohnihan, CEO of BOA, described the coronavirus crisis as a “war”. Israel PM Netanyahu said his country is at “war” with an invisible enemy, the coronavirus.

I am curious if Trump or other world leaders will describe the coronavirus situation as a “war” and if so, will any country declare war against the coronavirus.

War on an emotion must have lost its oomph.

If the war ostensibly waged on the emotion had the proximate effect of increasing that emotion, what will the War on Plague do?

I would suggest upgrading to a War on War; but Woodrow Wilson already did that, with the War to End Wars!  Didn’t you hear:  War was eternally defeated 101 years ago.  Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty could well be interpreted as a War on Famine; victory has been achieved there, too.  Now, all we need is a War on Death!  Made in America (so stated with the understanding that not all individual Americans are so fortunate as to be grateful for their government’s wise policies).