Life After Lockdown
WITH UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS BALLOONING TO 22 million people, the coronavirus lockdown took an uncomfortable turn for state governors in mid-April. Workers and small business owners clogged the streets of Lansing, Michigan, near the capitol, blaring car and truck horns, and waved signs calling on Governor Gretchen Whitmer to allow businesses to open up. Smaller protests took place in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina and Utah.
The angry outburst came just as the nation teetered on what the computer models say is the “peak” of the Covid-19 outbreak. According to most calculations, the death toll, after rising with terrifying steepness for several weeks, should be flattening out and
