America has never undertaken its like — a high-risk, high-cost endeavor launched amid uncertainty, panic, and pessimism.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hatever we eventually call it, there is a coronavirus “project.”

Chemotherapy

It’s a race to identify the origins, nature, and danger of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the best way to treat, vaccinate against, and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 disease — all without destroying America to save it.

However the Corona Project is defined, it remains different from all previous existential American efforts. We are not building any new weapon or infrastructure or deliberately adopting a radical new policy. Much less are Americans fighting a visible enemy, poverty, or just bad habits.

Instead, we are giving ourselves massive social and economic chemotherapy to …