Dancing round the Covid hammer

We need a hammer to lockdown the pandemic quickly and aggressively. The mitigation option is too slow, threatening to overwhelm our hospital facilities, causing high death rates, as Wuhan, Lombardy, Madrid, New York and London have all faced.. (A member of the Red Cross walks at a mobile hospital at Jacques Lemaire Arena in the Montreal suburb of LaSalle, Sunday, April 26, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. - AP)

NOW that most of us have been under lockdown for more than a month, how have we coped emotionally, economically, socially and politically?

For almost everyone, we have been stressed out of our minds. It is difficult to think rationally or objectively when we confront our own mortality, with very uncertain and tough choices in the months ahead.