How America Can Reopen (New York Times)

From the article:

“…There is no shortage of analogies for how to think about these components of the long-term response: It’s a Marshall Plan, an Apollo mission and a New Deal all rolled into one. However this is framed, it needs to happen fast for the sake of both the economy and the public’s health. ‘The half measures we’re taking now are doing real harm to people’s livelihoods without doing as much as they could to slow the virus,’ says Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development.

It will be difficult to explain these past few weeks to future generations — how terror and complacency sat so close together, how despite years of warnings from global experts and weeks of signaling from Asia and Europe, America’s leaders failed to prepare for the inevitable, and how even as sickness and death surpassed the capacity of hospitals and funeral homes, they did not act decisively…”