This is how you think like an idiot.

A couple of months ago, I remember arguing that it would be fairly easy to restart the economy once we had defeated COVID-19. My reasoning was pretty simple: unlike a normal recession, which breeds a tremendous amount of uncertainty, an artificial recession can be brought to a clean end.

That’s just not how the economy works. It’s not how any complex system works. It’s a frankly child’s-level view of a system like the economy. How do people become this clueless?