Coronavirus Pandemic: Policymakers Have Learned Nothing about Controlling COVID-19

Enough!

Almost nine months into the American COVID-19 pandemic, we have learned so much about the disease, and yet almost nothing at all about how to confront it with policy. Or rather, we confront it with policies that make no sense, that do not relate to each other, and that impose all the costs of restricted life, with no plan for maintaining the good that was achieved by public sacrifices.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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Enough!

Almost nine months into the American COVID-19 pandemic, we have learned so much about the disease, and yet almost nothing at all about how to confront it with policy. Or rather, we confront it with policies that make no sense, that do not relate to each other, and that impose all the costs of restricted life, with no plan for maintaining the good that was achieved by public sacrifices.