Reopening The Nation Is Now Necessary To Save Lives

1. There’s another saying going around right now: “The cure must not be more deadly than the disease.” The more we delay re-opening, the more lives we endanger, violating the “do no harm” principle.
2. Although the goal of social distancing was originally to protect hospital capacity, the goal-posts have been moved to a focus on “saving lives.” Clearly, our hospitals are dealing with the demand just fine.
3. Re-opening business and the elective health-care system shouldn’t be viewed as devaluing human life.
4. It is not reasonable to keep people from receiving care for other illnesses and ailments to prevent them from getting or spreading another disease.
5. Our leaders should be paying attention to the massive death toll that economic devastation and closure of our health-care system takes on society at large.
6. Perhaps the most well-respected infectious disease doctor in the world, Paul Farmer, said, “We know that risk of acquiring HIV does not depend on knowledge of how the virus is transmitted, but rather on the freedom to make decisions.
7. Instead, predominantly the left makes rash arguments that those who discuss economic principles don’t value human life.
8. Now we have better data and experience that beg a more sophisticated approach as our nation grapples with balancing public health and the economy.
9. But now, we have better data and experience that beg a more sophisticated approach as our nation grapples with balancing public health and the economy.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/24/reopening-the-nation-is-now-necessary-to-save-lives/