SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Choose Your Poison? U.S. Is Being Ravaged by Both the Pandemic and the Collapsing Economy Dec. 17, 2020 (EIRNS)—If you believe the popular gossip that you have to choose between bringing the economy to a halt to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, or “reopening” the economy and letting the disease rip, you’re being snookered—once again—by the British financial crowd that brought you both catastrophes in the first place: the City of London and their Wall Street sidekicks. As Lyndon LaRouche warned four decades ago, and the LaRouche organization restated explicitly as early as February 2020, the then-emerging pandemic was caused by 50 years of catastrophic British Empire economic policies which had brought the world’s potential relative population density well below the actual population on the planet. The solution to both crises does not lie in some trade-off between the two, but in a single global solution to both, revolving around the application of LaRouche’s famous Four Laws. This was elaborated by EIR in its May 2020 “The LaRouche Plan To Reopen the U.S. Economy: The World Needs 1.5 Billion New, Productive Jobs.”