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Guest column, Chuck Bennett: America has been in uncharted waters before and emerged stronger
Chuck Bennett
Chuck Bennett
COVID-19 is teaching us the same lesson that Portuguese sailors learned 600 years ago. Necessity had made Portugal the leader in developing the sea-faring technology that led to the Age of Discovery. Perched on Europe’s westernmost shore, Portugal was far from the Silk Road, the famous overland trade route to the East that was making the other European countries rich.