A couple of months ago, before the great reopening disaster, I did several interviews in which I was asked about the tradeoff between the economy and fighting the pandemic. I answered that there was no tradeoff; you can't recover until you beat the virus. 1/
But that seemed impossible for the interviewers to process: each time they would come back with, "Yes, but how should we make the tradeoff between the economy and fighting the pandemic?" 2/
But there really isn't a tradeoff. The US is now lagging behind other countries that didn't rush to reopen 3/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 
Within the US, states that threw caution to the wind gained a short-term boost but are now falling behind 4/ washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
So we sacrificed tens of thousands of lives for nothing, or less than nothing. MAGA! 5/
