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US President Donald Trump initially brushed off coronavirus fears as alarmist and erroneously conflated the deadliness of the flu with that of the new virus.America is shutting itself down But Friday, Trump called a national emergency, forced to accept that the United States won't be immune this time. The US now has a reported 48 deaths and more than 2,100 infections, and it's beginning to look a lot like Italy on lockdown. Now the US government has some quick and uncomfortable choices to make that could shape the health of the country in weeks from now. Many of these choices drive at the heart of what it means to be American. Individual freedoms that many Americans hold onto so dearly will need to be compromised. Freedom of movement, to assemble and protest, and the right to privacy could be among liberties first to go in the battle to control the virus.  The sense of exceptionalism that is so engrained in the American psyche will have to be put aside. This is not a war that can be won by the world's most