COVID-19 Liability Protections are a Really, Really Bad Idea

To protect businesses, Mitch McConnell is willing to let America’s economy go over the edge

For the last several months, Congress — especially the US Senate — has behaved like a person who, upon seeing their home ablaze, decides to watch the conflagration for a while, to see how bad it gets. Rather than contacting the fire department, they watch the fire grow larger, hoping the fire will go out on its own.

I’m referring, of course, to Washingt…