The Struggle Against Coronavirus: Are We At ‘War’? How Will It Change The World? – OpEd

By Richard E. Rubenstein*

The use of war metaphors to describe the response of threatened societies to the coronavirus and the disease it causes (COVID-19) is certainly understandable and not entirely inaccurate.  But it is also misleading in crucial respects.

Like a wartime enemy, the virus is portrayed as a maleficent...