Here are a video and three articles of opinion related to the new coronavirus and its economic and social consequences:

(1) In an interview, Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University emphasizes the imperative of having accurate data before making decisions. The physician and epidemiologist questions the validity of assumptions made by public figures responding Covid-19. His talk with filmmaker John Kirby took place a week or so ago.

(2) Bret Stephens includes three paragraphs on Ioannidis in a New York Times column headed “It’s Dangerous to Be Ruled by Fear.” It was published on March 20.

(3) In this post headlined “People Get Ready!,” James Howard Kunstler envisions a United States ahead that will be unrecognizable to many. He is the author of The Long Emergency (2005), among other works of fiction and nonfiction.

(4) How will the Russians pay for their government’s response to Covid-19 if President Vladimir Putin has his way? And how does that compare with how Americans will pay back the trillions the Trump administration, Congress and the Federal Reserve are doling out to address the contagion and keep the economy going? HERE is journalist Mike Whitney’s view. (A Russian ruble yesterday equaled $0.0125676 in U.S. currency, so the 1 million rubles referred to equaled about $12,568.)