Very few, if any, public policies of recent times have been more consequential and controversial than the near-unprecedented decision by governments in the U.S. – and around the world – to respond to the Covid pandemic by locking down businesses, stores, and schools and quarantining citizens through curfews, stay-at-home orders and outlawing social gatherings. And yet, to this day, one topic that has garnered shockingly little attention is the collateral damage during the pandemic, whether in non-Covid excess deaths, or lasting damage from lost school time for our children, or lasting loss of economic opportunity from lost jobs or work-from-home can morph into not working at all.