Safe from coronavirus . Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Restrictions, the big question now is whether the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths will surge. Itll take weeks to see the effects of lifting the restrictions. Thats one reason medical experts strongly cautioned against a rush to reopen. Theyre warning the risks of a resurgent virus might be more dire than even the 70,000 plus deaths weve seen so far. Historians have urged us to take the long view, reminding us of another time and another pandemic in which warnings that were ignored led to a wave of death. Our special contributor joie chene world was at war. A silent threat loomed at home, and yet the band played on. America entered the great war a year earlier with patriotism at a fever pitch. Everyone was supposed to contribute to the cause. Kenneth thats right. We have to remember that america, in 1917 and 1918, was really a nation going to war. And they were going to war with a very profound propaga