Democracies have proven they have the edge in coping with this crisis

Abstract:

Throughout the centuries, competitors of the prevailing system have known that disaster presents them with an opportunity. Writing about the Black Death, which culled more than 40 per cent of Europe’s population, the historian David Herlihy notes that the plague, “discredited the leaders of society, its governors, priests, and intellectuals, and the laws and theories supported by them”.