Is the state avoiding a lockdown because it
doesn’t have to, or can’t afford to?
Just a few weeks ago, much of Europe was where Massachusetts is now in responding to a resurgent virus, closing certain businesses in the hopes that would be enough to contain infections.
It was not, and now countries from Ireland to Italy, England to Germany, have closed up much of their economies — an option that could prove prohibitively costly if caseloads here keep mounting a similarly worrisome trajectory.
The key difference is European countries have backed their more stringent closures with stimulus spending that softens the blow on workers and the economy. In the United States, there is no such backstop.
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