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At a time of national crisis, only a command economy can provide the co-ordinated, integrated response needed to defeat the virus, says HANK ROBERTS

HAVING called the fight against the coronavirus a “war,” the government has patently failed to match its rhetoric.  

It should have, and should now, establish a command economy. 

For this there is no need to look back to World War II because we have the example of China.  

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