Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas discusses the imperative to end the complete isolation. 

For a brief season in time, we glimpsed from the awful epidemic what was wheat and what was chaff, what was mahogany beneath and what a scrapped thin veneer above, who were the V8s and who the mere gaudy, tail fins—and how America ultimately got by and how it almost didn’t.

President Donald Trump recently characterized reopening the national economy, which has ground to a near halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, as “the biggest decision I’ll ever make.” Gov. Ralph Northam’s decision to reopen the Virginia economy will be one of his biggest decisions as well.

Thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, the expression “flattening the curve” has entered our vocabulary. We understand that the major public health objective is to reduce the spread of the disease so that our healthcare system is not overwhelmed.