How do you choose between economic ‘deaths of despair’ and coronavirus victims? ‘It’s appalling to attach a dollar number to a human life — for noneconomists’

How do you strike a balance between the country’s economic life and actual human life?

Is putting America back to work sooner rather than later a Sisyphean task, the equivalent of rolling a rock perpetually uphill while up to 2 million people, in a worst-case scenario, dieof COVID-19? Or does the Sisyphean task involve waiting, while millions more people lose their livelihoods, only to find…

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