Should there ever be a trade-off between the economic health of a country and the health and well-being of its citizens?
It is the kind of stuff that you would expect to hear debated in an ethics class at school rather than under the glare of a spotlight on the world stage.
But that appears to be the gist of the ongoing battle between the people in The White House and respected epidemiologists. Politicians want the country to get back to work immediately. Epidemiologists say the economy cannot possibly open safely until the COVID-19 infection rate starts to flatten or come down.
So, who is right?
Politicians warn that there won’t even be an economy left to go back to if we continue to keep a country in lockdown. They say that businesses will be so badly scarred, and some so terribly decimated, that they will never be able recover....