Historian here: Comparing "Pearl Harbor" to Covid-19 is a terrible historical analogy; it panders to anti-Asian racism; obscures why working-class communities are more vulnerable to the virus; and erases the Trump administration's stunning incompetence https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/pearl-harbor-us-surgeon-general-coronavirus-deaths-donald-trump-white-house-briefing?CMP=share_btn_tw

We can take the virus seriously without resorting to unhelpful and potentially dangerous military metaphors.

Furthermore, viewing Covid-19 through a nationalist lens (as an attack on the US) is not useful when it is a global pandemic that affects all peoples.