Well, there’s a crucial difference between looking the other way on mass murder, and noting that this pandemic has been an order of magnitude less serious than the worst case scenario we all took this giant hit for. People need to get back to work. Further bankrupting millions of people in perpetuity will have effects worse than the death toll we’ve already seen — especially if there’s confounding information calling into question the necessity or effectiveness of this shut down.

I’m in a somewhat insulated field, so I’m not talking my own book directly here. We have a problem that could soon be bigger than a pandemic, and it’s tens of millions of a new underclass of people who were only made poor by political decree. That’s a guaranteed recipe for disaster that we’re balancing against the diminishing possibility that this shut down was even worth a damn in terms of stopping the virus.

In other words, we should be at least as careful about widespread civil unrest as we are about this not-as-deadly as we once feared virus. But we’re not.