Covid-19 Is So Hard To Defeat Because It's So Alien To Us

Covid-19 is one of the most "alien" viruses our modern health care system has encountered. Not because it came from extraterrestrials, but because of all of the various different ways it's able to wreak havoc on the human body. It's so novel that we don't have a good natural analog to compare it to. And it's still confounding us. While it looked as if we had contained it here in the US, it's now surging back so strongly that overwhelmed hospitals are convening "survival panels" to determine who gets treated and who gets sent home to likely die. We are learning more about it every day, and have a long way to go until we really understand well how it works and how to fight it. So we need to remain vigilant in our efforts to avoid it, or else the resurging death count may go a lot higher.

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.