So the Why It Matters team, like everyone else, is home.

And it's hard. Things are scary.

I don't know about you, but I've been having endless video chats with my friends and family.

And aside from drinking wine while showing off completed puzzles or homemade bread,

we're mostly talking about two topics, health and the economy.

We bounce back and forth.

What starts as a question about how someone's feeling turns into an update about who lost

their job.

These conversations are happening everywhere.

Nobody wants to get sick. Nobody wants to lose their job.

And it can feel like it's one or the other.

As people deal with these worries, some politicians and

business leaders have called for a return to work in order to save the economy,

even at the expense of lives. It just keeps coming up and so we decided hey let's pick up the phone

and ask two of our fellows to help us understand the problem. One an expert on

health and the other an expert on the economy.

Just a heads up that this episode is going to have a different style than our other shows.

It's essentially two conversations without most of our usual music and narration and

pizzazz. Don't worry though we'll be back to our regular format and non-Corona

virus programming for our season 2 premiere in two weeks. But for now I'm Gabriel Sierra and this is why it matters.

Today saving the economy and saving lives. Do we have to choose? Okay, first up, Tom Boike, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council.

He's getting a lot of these calls so hopefully he's not

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