The Cure Is Not Worse Than the Disease
on the channel Sunday evening, “You know, that famous phrase, ‘The cure is worse than the disease?’ That is exactly the territory we are hurtling towards. You think it is just the coronavirus that kills people? This total economic shutdown will kill people.
” The message isn’t just coming from talking heads. Trump’s top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, said this of reopening the economy: “We’ll have to try to do [because] “economic cost to individuals is just too great,” he told Fox News anchor Ed Henry. “But the president is right,” Kudlow said, falsely. “The cure can’t be worse than the disease, and we’re gonna have to make some difficult tradeoffs. I’m not disposed—I don’t want to get ahead of the story.” It’s not wrong that this is real economic pain, and it’s not wrong that economic pain has health consequences for individuals. But the wondrous thing of living in the world’s richest country — especially a country that, at present, can borrow money at near-zero interest rates — is that we can spend to blunt the economic damage. What we can’t do, now matter how much we spent, is bring people back to life. Trump, who uses the Dow and other signs of economic growth as a pillar of his reelection messaging, seems to be seeing it differently, basically arguing that the economy matters more than the people it’s supposed to provide for. And recommending Americans go about business as usual would certainly prove needlessly fatal to thousands upon thousands of people and bring the economy to a halt anyway. Hospitals will be overwhelmed and run out of ventilators and personal protective equipment, which they are already running low on. As one model by theshowed, without social distancing, we could have as many as 9.4 million people simultaneously infected at the peak, and there is no way hospitals can accommodate even a fraction of that number, meaning hundreds of thousands would die without access to treatment.in a tweet , writing, “Try running an economy with major hospitals overflowing, doctors and nurses forced to stop treating some because they can’t help all, and every moment of gut-wrenching medical chaos being played out in our living rooms, on TV, on social media, and shown all around the world. There is no functioning economy unless we control the virus.”Anthony Fauci , the immunologist who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci has spoken truth to power and directly contradicted the president’s statements about coronavirus, but his competence may cost him. Trump has begun to freeze Fauci out, openly saying he “disagrees” with him on things like whether malaria drugs could be effective against coronavirus. Fauci even joked in aThe problem with social distancing in the age of the 24-hour news cycle is that it takes time to prove effective. Italy is only now seeing the results of their social distancing efforts. The number offor the second day in a row on Monday, two weeks after the prime minister put the entire country in quarantine on March 9. But Trump, who has bragged about the stock market his entire presidency measures success in dollars, not lives saved. If he gets his way, America is doomed to see many of its citizens die needlessly. Trump is
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