We’ve heard much during the Wuhan flu crisis about a “worst case scenario” of two million dead Americans, a staggering number. But missing from the national conversation is something equally important: What’s the worst case scenario given our present course of action, largely locking down the country and freezing life like an insect stuck in amber? What if worse coming to worst means a great depression, a descent into tyranny, millions more dead from other causes and a permanently impoverished nation? Almost the entire virus debate has centered around whether the experts are correct about the infectivity and virulence of...