Scott Madin

Ironically, the government's inadequate response to the delta wave could be analogized to a worker who gets sick, but fears if they take time off to recover they'll lose their job, so they keep going to work, infect coworkers, cost the company weeks of productivity, and also die.

If you do "too much" about the problem, maybe you'll expend some effort or funds you didn't strictly need to. But if you do too little, you'll make the problem worse. This should be an easy calculus!

If your house is burning, are you going to tut-tut the firefighters about whether they really NEED to use THAT much water?

If we'd imposed heavy restrictions, and backstopped people's needs with federal debt spending, last spring, we'd be celebrating the anniversary of the end of the pandemic right now.