having a low employment % doesn't meant everyone is adequately employed. i.e employed in productive sectors. say you shift 20% of the people who work in restaurants to manufacturing or road work. that's already a 50% improvement in quality of roads and ifra
The Govt. is required to steer the economic ship to make these things happen:
1) tie state taxes to per/capita testing infrastructure and ppe reserve
2) stress test public health institutes like financial institutes
3) use the military to war game these events