Commentary

Congratulations, Americans.  For those of you in states that sensibly largely opened their businesses, and for those in the locked-down states whom mobility and other data suggest have increasingly ignored the lockdown, congratulations for improving economic conditions and getting a number of people back to work.  Now government just has to catch up with the citizenry and lift the extreme, unnecessary and undemocratic shutdowns.

We should all be demanding a Coronavirus Response Commission, whose job would be to investigate why the extreme shutdowns were enacted, whether they were justified, the full damage caused by those actions, whether or not they actually saved any lives, and how we avoid ever doing this dreadful damage to ourselves again.