A year and a half or two years from now, when the coronavirus has done its damage and faded into America's recent memory, both the Right and the Left will claim victory each by pointing to the extreme views of the other. "You said it would kill five million people!" the Right will say to the Left.
"You said it was a flu!" the Left will say to the Right.The moderates will have won, but not in a way that means anything; "I don't know" isn't much of a battle cry.
The nut jobs—the preppers, the conspiracy buffs, will maintain their usual sideshow status and not matter at all.
