Headline Roundup • April 19th, 2020

Perspectives: Re-opening the Economy During Coronavirus

Coronavirus,White House,Public Health,Economy And Jobs

Summary from the AllSides News Team

As President Donald Trump and governors around the country begin to take steps to lift lockdown restrictions and re-open the nation's economy during the COVID-19 outbreak, debate in the media and in Washington has raged around the timeline and pros and cons of the process. Experts and officials in favor of a speedy re-opening, including Trump himself, have stressed the negative economic impact a prolonged shutdown will have on the country, while those opposed have cautioned against moving forward before ample testing capacity and even a vaccine for the virus have been reached. In analysis and opinions pieces, media outlets on the left have generally fallen into the latter camp, while many on the right have been more in line with the former.

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The Road to Reopening the Economy Is Still Long

Bloomberg

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The Road to Reopening the Economy Is Still Long

Bloomberg

Opinion

Last week, which was 84 years ago, we wrote the pandemic-gripped world is like that kid on the long car ride asking “Are we there yet?” The analogy was off by just a bit, at least in the U.S.: Here, that impatient kid is actually driving the car.

President Donald Trump has obviously been itching to end lockdowns, and yesterday he released guidelines on how states could do it. These were surprisingly deferential to governors, but that didn’t last long. This morning he was on Twitter, calling on Minnesota, Michigan...

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Reopening the Economy, at Last

Wall Street Journal (Opinion)

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Opinion

At long last our political leaders are considering how they can reopen the American economy they put into a destructive coma. Let’s hope this overdue process doesn’t devolve into another fight between governors and President Trump that will confuse Americans and slow the return to normal economic life.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took the lead Monday by announcing a committee of six Northeast states aimed at reopening the economy without sacrificing the gains made so far, and at such a great cost, against the coronavirus....

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Can we reopen before there’s a cure or a vaccine? It won’t be easy.

Washington Post

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Can we reopen before there’s a cure or a vaccine? It won’t be easy.

Washington Post

Opinion

EXPECTATIONS ARE running high that reopening the United States will mean returning to offices, factories and schools, kick-starting the economy and rediscovering life before the novel coronavirus pandemic. At best these alluring goals are likely to be achieved haltingly, partially, more slowly than we would like — and how haltingly will depend heavily on how well the nation undertakes a mammoth set of public health tasks.

The inescapable fact is that in the absence of a vaccine or drug therapy for the next year or more, a highly infectious virus...

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