How do we get out of this? We know how we got into it, but solving our problems is what concerns us now. The answer to economic questions is probably just to stop closing things down. Where the world has been doing exactly that, the economies have opened up again.

There is a natural experiment going on. China closed down and then opened back up a month or so before the West started to do so. Looking at what’s happening there gives us some sense of our future, if we stay the path, that is.