Quote from: nullius on March 16, 2020, 12:40:46 AM

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on March 16, 2020, 12:25:58 AM

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 Wars; but Wilson already did that, with the War to End Wars!)

Declaring War on the coronavirus would be largely symbolic, although it may make China and the CCP uncomfortable. It could allow countries to take over factories to produce certain goods (I dont think this is needed right now, but it may be if there is a shortage of medicines and antibiotics). It would also send a signal to citizens as to how serious the situation is to get citizens to adhere to recommendations that should help slow the spread of the virus.

OT/ some argue that the Cold War was actually WW3. There were a number of proxy wars during the Cold War so that no two nuclear powers were fighting each other and there was the arms race.