Please note that this article has not been updated since April 6, 2020. For more up-to-date information, please consult other sources. For once the doomsdayers were right: we are in the midst of a pandemic, a defining historic moment that may create a “new normal” with its indelible social, economic, and political reverberations. Its cost is measured in human lives lost to the virus. Governments around the world are struggling to stave off a worst-case scenario in which too many people get sick at the same time, leading to a shortage of medical supplies and the unnecessary and preventable loss of life. My best friend (who, might I add, has…