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The $86 trillion question is how to get people back to work

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Officials from Rome to Washington are urgently mapping out plans to loosen lockdowns and begin rebooting their economies even as the coronavirus pandemic still rages across swaths of the globe.

Trouble is, there’s no master plan. The juggling act for policy makers will be to reopen without triggering a second wave of infections that leads to a fresh round of lockdowns and yet more economic damage.

History serves as a warning: the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, the world’s worst health crisis until this one, hit in three waves before finally being contained.

The city of Wuhan, the original epicenter of the outbreak, provides a test case after China this week lifted its months-long quarantine.

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