We had a two-month lockdown, it tanked the economy, and as soon as it ended, the number of cases started to go up again. Why should we think another lockdown would produce different results?

Most of us began this journey with no real knowledge of the virus, and how damaging (or not) it would turn out to be. Today, we still don't know that much more.

For full disclosure, I am absolutely not qualified to make assertions as what would be the best solution at this point, but I do recognise the need for people to make some tough decisions, most importantly, the decisions need to be rational and not influenced by purveyors of limiting the freedom to live. People think the economy is about the financial system, the stocks etc, but it is anything but. The economy is quite literally the people and how they go about their daily lives.

My fear is that we soon won't really have much of a life worth returning to if we continue this mass fear mongering and forcing people on both sides of the equation to prohibit spending deploying their resources - whether you're a business / service provider etc, or a consumer.

The happy medium is of self responsibility. Assess the situation, and allot the permissible amount of risk in engaging the activities you deem necessary. Yes, we need a vaccine to really feel safe, and no, I don't believe we'll have a reliable one any time soon.

Places like Florida are a prime example of the mis-reporting and skewed narrative that is being spewed by our KOLs. The pandemic isn't and shouldn't be viewed as a whole because it is really a lot of localised peaks and troughs. States are experiencing their outbreaks and settling periods at different times, and different rates. Some are well past the peak, some are only beginning to get there.