Bret Stephens:
"No wonder so much of America has dwindling sympathy with the idea of prolonging lockdown conditions much further."
86% of the country: businessinsider.com/poll-most-amer…
"No wonder so much of America has dwindling sympathy with the idea of prolonging lockdown conditions much further."
86% of the country: businessinsider.com/poll-most-amer…
Bret Stephens doesn't write "opinion columns"; he uses the leeway provided him by "opinion" to pass along the alternative facts that his ideological fixations would require to be to true to be valid.
The COVID19 geography the right wants you to imagine is "only NYC can or will suffer, while Real America will be fine." The ACTUAL geography is "people whose working conditions put them at greater risk--lower income and predominantly non-white--will bear the brunt of this"
The longer the lockdown goes on, the more burden will be placed on the government to make it livable. "Opening the economy" is about forcing working people to put their health at risk to avoid that terrifying problem:
"Density" is not how you distinguish which parts of New York City, Oakland, and Georgia have been hit hardest by the virus: 
