The long-term effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns are unknowable, but the medium-term effects are already clear. We have self-induced economic carnage, a child development calamity, a spiritual disaster and a mental health crisis. Maybe this made sense for a very short period of time. But that period of time is very clearly over.
By all means, continue to take sanitation precautions. It's not yet time to throw away the hand sanitizer or burn your masks. But it is long past time to reopen America. Kudos to Texas and Mississippi for leading the way.
Josh Hammer, opinion editor at Newsweek and a syndicated columnist joins Rod at 5:05 to talk about reopening the country. Rod wants to know what we should keep after the pandemic/
Read Newsweek.
https://www.newsweek.com/reopen-america-now-opinion-1573928
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