81. The Lockdowns

The previous post on this site urged a recognition of tradeoffs in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic tradeoffs between the direct effects of the virus and effects on public health of the shutdowns now in place in many countries. I also highlighted a newly visible divide in society between people, like me, whose salaries continue through the shutdowns (the easy side of the divide), and people whose income has, through no fault of their own, suddenly vanished (the hard side). I expressed some...