Americans, what is more important to you right now...

The health and lives of loved ones is the priority. However, Covid-19 is not the only risk to life and health. Maintaining life and health also requires having an economy that hasn’t completely collapsed, because if the food supply is disrupted and other health services are disrupted, that also poses major risks to the health and lives of loved ones. This is going to be a very long slog with waves, and there’s going to have to be a balance that keeps the economy from collapsing while also exercising extreme caution. This is not going to be easy or pleasant by any stretch, and it’s going to be equally impossible to keep everything shut down as it is to instantly reopen everything everywhere. Lives and health always should be the priority, but that means keeping the totality of what that encompasses in mind as decisions are made.