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Two independent groups have arrived at the conclusion that the COVID-19 lockdown is doing more harm than good. Specifically, the lockdown is taking more life than it's saving. How is it possible to make a determination like that?

The mayor of Los Angeles has said that his city will "never be completely open until we have a cure" for the coronavirus.

The novel coronavirus, officially dubbed SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes (COVID-19) have continued to surprise all of us. And the surprises have been uniformly negative.

As of today, the American death toll from COVID-19 stands at more than 69,000, according to Johns Hopkins.

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.

For social and economic reasons, the lockdown simply cannot last much longer. As the country begins to reopen, there will be several major unanswered questions, perhaps the biggest of which is, "Will there be a second wave of COVID-19?"

Like democracy, everybody wants to be on the side of science.

I'm continually struck by what our species is capable of.