We didn’t like the governor’s partial lockdown any better than you did. But all of us trusted health officials who said it was needed.
Now there are a few questions about whether they were right,
Some are beginning to ask if we are burning the barn to get rid of a few mice?
Have we over-estimated the severity and rate at which the virus can spread? Have we under-estimated the common sense of the American people?
Others are asking if the governors’ responses to the virus in New York, New Jersey, California, Michigan, Kentucky and Washington state will kill us if the corona virus doesn’t.
We know the virus is especially lethal to the elderly. But did we shut down everybody to protect the elderly who are no longer part of the economy?
Harsh as this sounds, they produce little any more. Most are retired or working part-time if at all. Many are in retirement communities and nursing homes where it is expensive to keep them comfortable. They do create jobs in these places and their needs can often be better met there than alone at home.
Some of us ask if the damage the lockdown did will go beyond the mental and physical issues health officials warn about?
The $2.2 trillion cost of Congress’s attempts to soften the blow is enormous. Now a few Democrats– but not all – want to spend another $3 trillion with what appears to have little to do with the pandemic’s effects and more in what it might do for their re-election chances.
That cost will be left to our grandchildren’s children to pay in higher taxes, lost production, higher interest rates and higher inflation for decades.
Fortunately, Gov. Henry McMaster has opened restaurants, gyms, hair stylists and other businesses that suffered great losses in income and ability to care for their customers’ needs.
We think this is a sensible step to take. Douse down the barn. We can live with a few mice.
What do you think? 
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