Government's Role in Society: The Quality of the State Matters

The Virus Should Wake Up the West by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-13/coronavirus-pandemic-is-wake-up-call-to-reinvent-the-state

“The Covid-19 pandemic has made government important again. Not just powerful again (look at those once-mighty companies begging for help), but also vital again: It matters enormously whether your country has a good health service, competent bureaucrats and sound finances. Good government is the difference between living and dying.”

Quality of Government Matters:

https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2020/03/state-capacity-matters.html
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2020/04/why-us-governments-crisis-measures.html