[gonewest]

Strawman argument.

Who is saying the goal is “zero deaths at all costs”? I see governors seriously weighing the costs and risks, and talking about the response when (not if) reopening leads to new flare-ups.

Whitmer: “As we start to very shrewdly reopen (edited: autocorrect) sectors, we’ve got to measure every step of the way. If we start to see a spike, we have to be nimble enough to pull back...”

Newsom: “As we move into the next stage of reopening, we will do so with updated guidance to help qualifying businesses make modifications needed to lower the risk of COVID-19 exposure to customers and workers. Californians should prepare now for that second stage of reopening...”

Cuomo: “This is not a sustainable situation.” However, “You see that you reopen too soon or you reopen unintelligently and you can then have an immediate backlash.”

And so on. I concede there may be someone out there arguing for “zero” but I don’t see the goal of even the more aggressively locked down US states being “zero”.