The President only cares about how he is perceived by the voters in November. He is reticent about continuing to damage the economy with a lockdown and against his picked experts’ advice by trying to get people to go back to work. If the economy is on the road to recovery, he thinks his chances will be far better than if it is bad. After fouling up the entire response, he must depend on a recovering economy. He repeatedly changed his mind and responsibilities, usually against his pandemic advisers’ advice.

Congress and the administration have run up a huge debt and Trump must have the economy going again, no matter how many people needlessly die. The government must get money to operate. America must work as soon as possible. Either open or save people. Trump is willing to exchange an additional 60,000 to 100,000 lives for the possibility of getting re-elected.

Governor Pritzker has decided to save people at the risk of destroying the state’s economy for years. Pritzker thinks his duty is to the people first. How to do both is the problem.

The problem is Trump can print as much money as he needs and the Federal Reserve will cause trillions to magically appear to help the economy. Pritzker can’t and started the year with a financial crisis and few ways to remedy the situation.

Both are faced with a similar problem but on a different scale and with different objectives. Trump is worried about re-election and Pritzker is worried about lives. Both are damned – whichever way it turns out – for good or bad. It may take a year or more to find out who was right.