May 1 will not only be a reopening.
It will be a sacrifice and gamble, a very big game of Hamilton County roulette.
By ending our shelter-at-home mandate, we walk back into the breach. Coronavirus infections likely will return, making May 1 a collective, even heroic, sacrifice for the greater economic good.
“It’s like a beachhead,” one friend said. “We know we have to do it. But people are going to die in the process.”
Will it be your family or neighbors? Mine?