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On March 23, 2020, President Donald Trump first hinted that the lockdowns were not his first choice to control COVID-19. He tweeted, “We can’t let the cure be worse than the problem itself!” At that point, he was considering how to handle the end of the “15 Days to Slow the Spread” initiative. That phrase would be funny if it were not so infuriating. The media portrayed Trump’s comments to be solely concerned with the economy and his reelection.
On March 24, 2020, Trump clarified that he was worried about increased suicides if the economy remained closed for too long. In his clumsy way, he articulated the trend that Princeton professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton called “deaths of despair” in 2015. The economic impact of the 2008 recession and the hollowing out of the manufacturing base coincided with an uptick in deaths due to drug abuse (including opioids), alcohol abuse, and suicide, especially among middle-aged, working-class America ....

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