Editorial: No, Mr. Trump, you don't get to decide when the economy restarts
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Apr 14, 2020
3 minutes
Columnist Holman Jenkins offered an analogy in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend that captures the conundrum created by the U.S. response to COVID-19.
"Imagine a problem that can be solved by holding your head underwater," Jenkins wrote, "but stops being solved when you lift your head out." In other words, the stay-at-home measures adopted to protect against the outbreak are damaging in their own right, and not a cure for the disease.
In fact, there
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