Thomas Toland Smart: Don’t ‘open up’ without seat belts and guardrails

I keep seeing the argument that driving is risky but we do it anyway; therefore we should reopen the economy. That’s a false-equivalence argument for several reasons. For one thing, car crashes aren’t contagious. For another, COVID-19 has already killed more than twice as many Americans in three months as die in car crashes over an entire year, even as we have been doing the infectious-disease equivalent of not driving.That said, let's consider the argument seriously for a moment.In