Opinion: To improve our dismal Covid-19 performance, establish common ground between lockdown and open economy
In these stridently partisan times, the U.S. has coalesced around two polarized default narratives about Covid-19: avoid infection at all cost to drive transmission down to the lowest possible levels via national or state lockdowns versus open the economy and normalize most activities while absorbing the health consequences.
In our politically fractured country, neither of these policy narratives will gain enough public support to have a realistic chance of broad implementation.
