Response to NYT Column asking what we might have learned from the pandemic

 We might learn that pathological liars are poor Presidents. That more people die when Government lies to the people. When money is more important than people the people will suffer more than than they normally do. That Government Scientists worry about their jobs, too. That people with jobs looking into the potential future disasters should not be fired before the  disasters happen. That American politicians don't know the history of the Country or the World: Trump crossed the Rubicon, like Caesar did, but didn't have the best army in the world behind him; just a minor oversight. Historically, USA is only nation who celebrated the defeated Army in a civil war and put up statutes of the traitors.  Next time we should not let the loosers have the power to make heros of the traitors. Oh, when the President has been impeached twice but kept in office the evidence against him that his party members disregarded should be taken to a grand jury the day after the President leaves office.  Just my off hand reactions to the question.