I continue to believe that Trump needs to start getting numbers out about the cost of the lockdowns, on America’s emotional health, her economy, and even her physical health.
Lockdowns seem to accomplish little but making things a bit worse, compared to less stringent measures, like simply encouraging people to stay home if they can. If you stay home for five months, then when you get out, your immune system is weak. It makes you more vulnerable both to COVID and to any of a dozen other diseases out there.
If the resulting increases in disease–from relative easing–are then used as a reason to reimplement lockdowns, you have a vicious cycle whose main outcomes will be trauma and an on-going degradation in all aspects of public health. That is what is going on on California, where the fog and the night seem particularly intense.