Dear President Trump:

Your decision to contemplate and discuss an early return to normalcy is a hit with both the stock market, and the people, as shown by your poll numbers.

It isn't just the economy, it's much of life. Here is one discussion of an aspect that is important to me - what happens to my kids' drive and values:-

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/25/what-our-locked-down-kids-are-going-to-miss-out-on/

So I love it too. Other people have their own reasons. Government cannot possibly factor in ALL of the things that might be essential.

I just got the postcard you sent out. People tend to focus on the first and last item in any list, and overdo them.

The first is "Listen and follow ... local authority". For them, the first few directives are "... stay home".

The last is "Disinfect... as much as possible". I have just been forced out of my apartment into 40 degree weather, because a neighbor used too much bleach. Maybe the "double tap that kills" we are seeing is because the first visit to the hospital puts the fear in to clean everything, and the second visit that kills is because their already compromised lungs got destroyed by the chlorine from excessive cleaning.

The suicides have started. We had a case here of a fatal accident on I-5 because somebody stood in the middle of the freeway.

Enough now of the doom and gloom.
 
Dr. Fauci is wrong when he says "the virus sets the timetable". We do. He is right only if we do nothing. "Flattening the curve" is how we change the timetable so our systems can handle the strain. "Suppression" is one way to change the timetable. "Mitigation" is another way. There are variations within each of them. You, with data from the experts and your experience as an American, decide what the strategies are, and which are good enough to pursue. You are where you are because we trust you to do what is best for all of us, even if that means a few of us have to be sacrificed.

...Continued ...

A goal for when to begin the return is great. An Easter goal is even better, and is kind of symbolic. Hopefully, you can even figure out how to retrofit stadiums to make rallies safe.
Maybe my handdrawn suggestions to Azar for commuter rail help there. Maybe the CDC now has enough data about transmission to say what kinds of businesses can safely open. For example, "businesses with a still air environment and a way to ensure customers/personnel stay 6 feet apart and use dry gloves when inside the business can stay open." "Businesses with active people (e.g. dance exercise) should have an airflow designed (usually downward) to keep particles emitted by any person away from the faces of others."