And we are also likely to lose the vaccine race to Oz with our short-sightedness and ego.   I wish California well, but Oz is doing some very interesting things to shorten the linear strategy for vaccine development.

If we intelligently approached the economic challenges here, we would see that the most economically advantageous strategy would have been to get control of the epidemic quickly by testing widely and then get into production of a good vaccine for worldwide production.  Isn't the first thing they teach economics students is to find ways to take advantage of the situation in which you find yourself instead of wasting effort to get the economy back to what it was first when that place that wasn't all that much to start with?   Pillars of salt come to mind.

Monona