Dr. Lively asserts that the total-lockdown strategy set by California and New York is much less about curbing the spread of infections than about fueling public panic to maximize damage to the national economy before hard numbers on hospitalizations and fatalities prove definitively that this pandemic is less lethal than recent flu seasons. He predicts that this self-inflicted harm on their own state economies will boomerang back on the Dem governors who started it and voter anger once the truth has come out will inure to the political benefit of President Trump in November,
