Virus: Leaders’ tough call to save lives or economies

Protesters against the state's extended stay-at-home order to help slow the spread of the coronavirus disease demonstrate at the Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin on April 24. [Reuters]

In the late 1990s, Martin Mburu hosted a highly successful show on TV called Omo Pick a Box.

Selected participants were presented with the choice of either taking a given amount of money or picking a box whose contents were not known.