Can't Win for Losing

President Trump is really “up against it” these days. He’s fighting a deadly pandemic and one of the defenses against that is to ask people to stay home. But that means all commerce is ended until people can go back to work and do their jobs—which is not sustainable. We can’t continue to operate without people to do the available jobs because they’re afraid of getting the virus. We MUST “Reopen the economy,” or we will die. Trump has signaled that he wants to do so and many of his critics are panning him for that, as if what he wants to do is get people killed. No, he doesn’t. He, unlike his critics, knows that if the economy remains closed much longer, people are going to die from that. So he wants to institute a “safe reopening.” Where people can go to work while maintaining their defenses against the virus. That’s only common sense. But many of his critics will criticize anything he does. If he keeps things closed, they will pan that. If he opens things up, they will criticize him for that. He just can’t win. If he opens things up and one person dies because of it, they’ll criticize him. If he doesn’t, and somebody dies because of it, they’ll criticize that. (Just common sense)