Calli is still on a high lockdown even now though. Sure they've had less cases than others but I think the point is that they traded off fewer cases for other downsides that will have an impact just as bad or worse than if they had opened up but will be felt later.
Mm.
I think this idea of "other downsides" is a bit of a myth. The debate has long been framed as "death versus economy" but I'm not sure that's true. Death cans the economy anyway - not necessarily through worker death but because of how people will respond. You can leave your restaurant open, but
there's a plague loose. People won't go to it enough to keep it open anyway. And the more that die, if the hospitals stop being able to take in patients, the more afraid and unhappy people will get and that's going to have knock-on effects, too.
The biggest problems are probably going to be inadequate welfare support for the losers, and I suspect education of children will have taken quite a hit too, which will have to be caught up over the coming years.
The reason that people perhaps need to wait before they get really upset is that there will be a bounceback when the economy reopens, because many people are sitting on piles of unspent lockdown cash and they are going to go on a splurge. In two years, there's a fair chance we'll see economies are pretty much where they would have been without lockdown.
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