Why Should We Trust Double-Dealers?
To the Editor: It was perhaps inevitable that the debate over Coronavirus policy would fall victim to the partisan divide. Protestors on the political right are pushing for the elimination of stay at home policies and the opening up of the U.S. economy while discounting the seriousness of the epidemic. The liberal left postures that data and science should drive the decision to re-open and that a premature relaxing of stay in place rules would result in the reemergence of the virus. It is clear that many protestors on the right have overly discounted the threat of the virus. It is extracting a grievous toll …