Who dies

The latest controversy to spring up surrounding the virus is the trade off between public health and restarting the economy. Some say it is just another way of saying that some older people will have to be sacrificed to save the jobs of younger people. The press always wants to put things in terms of this or that when the this and that represents the extremes of two sides. The more logical approach is to move away from the stand apart policy in some areas while maintaining a close to home strategy in other areas. The idea of sacrificing one group to save another is not new. During WW 2 the young men between ages 18 and 30 were sent off to war in order to save children, seniors and women.