Chris Martenson: Coronavirus Is "This Generation's Polio"

Just as polio killed or permanently handicapped millions worldwide before a vaccine was developed, medical experts are now drawing comparisons in scale with the coronavirus. Covid-19 is "this generation's polio" declares Nicolas Hart, the British physician who recently treated UK PM Boris Johnson. With the false claims of "it's just the flu" now disproven, we're now faced with how to live under the threat of covid infection until - hopefully, as there are no guarantees here - an effective vaccine is developed and deployed at scale. How do we find a way to work, shop and socially interact without unacceptable risk to an invisible and high-infectious virus that can kill us or leave survivors with long-lasting damage to our lungs and other organs? Ready or not, we'll be figuring that out over the coming months...

Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the launch of his seminal video seminar which later became a book called The Crash Course. Chris' latest book (co-authored with Adam Taggart) is called Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting.