CB, I can't be too worried about the economy or my own portfolio when we're weeks behind in dealing with the pandemic. If you and I, our families, survive the disease, then we can begin to worry about picking up the pieces. I'm perfectly willing to credit Trump with the early China closure. It's the only thing he got right so far. I'm not trying to defend criticism of that impulse. That the WHO got something seriously wrong is no defense of Trump's ineptitude. In a crisis he is no leader; he's an albatross around the neck of people who ought to be listened to and followed. He has no expertise himself, and in his narcissism is hostile to everyone who does.

Bill Ferguson