During the public health crisis caused by COVID-19 and the economic crisis that resulted from the government-mandated societal shutdown, the public’s attention has focused on short-term threats and immediate consequences. This, understandably, led to an emphasis on figures such as the approximately 2.1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, roughly 118,000 deaths from the virus, and the 44 million Americans and counting who have filed for unemployment since the crisis began.But one key measure has gone under the radar—the untold trillions our government has piled onto the national debt during this crisis.
Source: One Overlooked COVID-19 Legacy Will Haunt Your Grandchildren - Foundation for Economic Education
Yes, some will say that people who express such thoughts are worried more about money than lives. But where is the morality in stealing from the nation's children and grandchildren? Not only that, but more difficult economics times, which more debt will inevitably lead to, will also cost lives for a plethora of reasons. We aren't just potentially trading lives for money but lives for other lives with no plan on how to mitigate that or clear view of how many lives we are talking about in either case. Irresponsible does not even begin to describe that behavior.
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