No one knows how to balance this, but the President and the medical advisors have to try.
Medical advisors will always favor lowering the risk of the virus, they are medical people.
Even when this is over (assuming it ends), we will never really know if we did the right things. But people on both sides will insist they were right anyway.
Elections will turn on voter beliefs about it.
True, I think voters will think he did great or did poorly. Split, so that’s not new.
I guarantee you, if he were to let it burn through so that everyone has a loved one die? That would sway an election big time. At least the economy can recover. Dead is dead.