I would have been a long shot... it would be quite an experience to research (in the presence of excellent reference libraries) and write instead of opining off the cuff. Someone would have to clip my tendency to go far to the Left on economics and Right on many other things (the latter -- drugs, crime, educational content, sexualization of life)...
Something interesting would be to compare other countries' crises.
People need a good scare; history is to a large extent an obscene tale written in the blood of innocent people.
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" (or) even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered... in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by (those) who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters