“Unless people feel safe, lifting restrictions won’t do much for affected sectors like restaurants and airlines, where demand has fallen off a cliff and could stay far below normal until a Covid-19 treatment or vaccine is found.” https://t.co/vgAluQ6wWT— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 18, 2020
The Lovely Wife says she's not going back to a restaurant anytime soon. Neither am I. We are both "vulnerable" to the virus, for various reasons. We won't be taking the chance. My school won't even let students back in to classes until 2021, at the earliest. That tells me there is no pent-up demand to return to business as usual in two weeks.
Meet the ‘Open It Up’ caucus: GOP voices speak up for fewer virus restrictions amid warnings from fellow Republicans https://t.co/ArEfIVZDnT— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) April 18, 2020
I keep thinking if these fools have their way anywhere in the country, the number of cases will surge in that area, and then this gesture will mean "Nobody could have foreseen."
As Auden said: "History to the defeated can say 'Alas,'/But cannot help or pardon."
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