It's not the pursuit of money that motivates those of us clamoring to return to normal life. It's the pursuit of a good life.
A popular nail salon in the small Mississippi town where I live let its customers know it was reopening last week. Things would be different, the salon announced, as it adjusted to new safety protocols. What would not change, it promised, was the great service. Within hours, the salon was booked for days. I was lucky to get an appointment. So was my 15-year-old daughter.
But it wasn't just the money she missed. She missed the pride in doing a good day's work and providing for her family. That pride had been stripped from her. It was finally back. Many sank their life savings into their businesses. Others put their homes on the line. Taking those risks with your life, and being responsible for other lives, is not for the weak of heart. For all of those businesses owners teetering on the edge of insolvency, their desire to return to life is about much more than money. Their lives hang in the balance.
It was an entirely different way not only of organizing a nation, but the habits of life itself. All of it not only surprised Tocqueville, but impressed him."I often admired the infinite art with which the inhabitants of the United States managed to fix a common goal to the efforts of many men and to get them to advance to it freely."
Osterholm is not a U.S. Chamber of Commerce spokesman or an acolyte of President Donald Trump. He's director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota."What we have to tell people honestly, what they want to hear, they don't want it sugarcoated and they do not want it coated in fear," he continued.
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