> Lifting the lockdown is not gonna make the virus disappear. Lifting prohibition wasn't going to make alcoholism disappear. Lifting the war on drugs won't ma

> Lifting the lockdown is not gonna make the virus disappear. Lifting prohibition wasn't going to make alcoholism disappear. Lifting the war on drugs won't make overdoses disappear. There are many things we could do in society to make negative externalities that cause hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths disappear. Yet we don't do those.