There is an old saying about experts and politics: experts are better on tap than on top. In a democracy, that principle is even more important since those making the decisions are supposedly accountable to the people. Experts, on the other hand, are not accountable to anyone.
At the moment, political decisions are being made by medical experts even though the long term effect of those policies would well be a catastrophic economic decline and a ‘Great Depression’ unemployment rate?
Many states have closed their borders to interstate visitors and even forced returning residents into quarantine.
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