The Pandemic’s Red Lights Are Flashing Again: Balance of Power

Commuters wear protective face masks during morning rush hour at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof central train station in Germany on Wednesday.

Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg

No one can say we weren’t warned.

When the coronavirus exploded in the Chinese city of Wuhan and began its inexorable spread across the globe, government leaders could claim with some justification that they couldn’t have known how bad it would get.