Where’s The Light At The End Of The Coronavirus Tunnel?

It’s all about visibility now. And there is none.

We keep coming back to the somewhat dismissive statement Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made to Congress just a few days ago, when he said:

“This is going to have an impact on the short term of the economy….It’s very different than the financial crisis because the good news here is that there will be an end in sight.”

And look, in times of economic turmoil it’s the Treasury Secretary’s job to say that everything’s going to be OK, while working diligently in the background to make it so.

Because in a lot of ways right now, Mnuchin’s in charge. At least in terms of holding the economy together while the President and health officials play catch-up on getting people tested and treated.

At a House hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addressed the lag in Coronavirus testing, saying:

“The system is not really geared to what we need right now….That is a failing. Let’s admit it.”

And that’s a big problem. Because the only way we’ll know the Coronavirus threat is subsiding is by seeing evidence new infections are ebbing. But if we don’t have sufficient testing…