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I admire your optimism that the economy will not shut down when people are found dead at homes because hospitals are full. Which is what's going to happen if w

• hutzlibu 7y ago
  When only (or mostly) the elder die, then the economy will not shut down, because of old people dying at home. Instead there will be a new big buisness of corpse disposal. Not nice, but necessary, if not government or voluntarily organized. Only when everyone panics and people fight over live saving toilet paper, instead of keeping the power running, then the economy will shut down for good. So I am not really scared of the virus, but rather panicked mobs.
• twblalock 7y ago
  The death rate is not as high as people think, because far more people have the virus than the number of people who have been tested. We are lucky this is not a super deadly virus, because I don’t think we would have handled it any better. Based on last week’s numbers, unemployment claims are up almost 10x compared to the normal level. That is one indicator of the damage to the economy. We need to consider that the human suffering caused by the economic shutdown will outweigh the human suffering caused by deaths, and it will last longer too.