Wall Street Journal: Covid Lockdowns Are/Were Overly Blunt and Costly
The Wall Street Journal says that this is new thinking. It is not new thinking for many Americans.
(From The Wall Street Journal)
Some experts are urging policy makers to pursue these more targeted restrictions and interventions rather than another crippling round of lockdowns.
“We’re on the cusp of an economic catastrophe,” said James Stock, a Harvard University economist who, with Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina and others, is modeling how to avoid a surge in deaths without a deeply damaging lockdown.
Actually beyond the cusp for the people standing in lines at the food banks, or the people who have lost their businesses forever, or the children isolated in their homes staring at video screens while their parents pour over unpaid bills, some of whom are clinically depressed.
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