The "direct/indirect" distinction is very important because once we have more perspective on this disaster, we should try to find out whether the alarm and the

The "direct/indirect" distinction is very important because once we have more perspective on this disaster, we should try to find out whether the alarm and the various extreme measures helped or not, and to what extent. I'm not saying that we should ignore the downstream effects of the pandemic, I'm saying the opposite - we should look at them with extreme scrutiny.