Is It Time to Rethink the Cost-Benefit Balance of Fighting COVID?

**ALERT: Unlike most of my work this post is an op-ed, not a science piece.**

Results were just published from a poll (link to full report at site) of households in America’s four largest cities (NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston) to assess the financial, health, and other impacts of the pandemic response. I emphasize the response, not the pandemic, because…