There has been some concern as leaders suppress the reopening of economies. Some times their logic is hard to follow.

Some of the leaders have low regard for what others esteem or maybe they just don’t grasp how things work together.

Here is a secret: you need the whole pencil to get a pencil to do what a pencil does. Hide it in a drawer is a good strategy in some situations but it’s a lousy solution generally.

I do not have a university degree in pandemics or any medicine. I do not belong to any political organization. I’m not a genius.

But I’m smart enough to know that an economy is an ecosystem that benefits from purposeful management. For example a forest may be harvested and replanted or harvested then repurposed for farming. Or it can be neglected and suffer nature, maybe burn to the ground. Or it can be deliberately burned to the ground.

I believe that leaders are smart enough to know that the whole pencil is needed to do the work of a pencil and that the “non essential”  parts just need cleaning from use to use.

But they’re calling the shots and that means the pencil remains barely useable if at all under this scheme of recognizing the value of only parts of it.

The pencil is the economy. Some groups just plain don’t like pencils. They have ‘a better way’. So we have this: