In many places in the U.S., it’s neither safe nor legal to conduct business right now due to the threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic (for more on this, see Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward’s “The Seen and the Unseen of COVID-19“). But the damage done by the virus has been made worse by an incompetent government response, impositions on people’s civil liberties, and an ongoing trade war with China. What follows is Reason‘s explanation of what went wrong and which rules, regulations, and parts of life people are getting the opportunity to rethink.
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