You can come at this two ways, I think: 1. We replace lost income. First, inflation hawks have been mostly wrong. Second, we are (somewhat) allowing producti

You can come at this two ways, I think: 1. We replace lost income. First, inflation hawks have been mostly wrong. Second, we are (somewhat) allowing production of goods to continue, while shutting down customer-facing (ie service) workers. So I suspect the effects will be limited. Second, we'll soon have serologic tests; those folks can just work. 2. We don't replace lost income. We probably have the highest unemployment filings on record, and devastate the lives of folks who work in bars / restaurants / coffee shops / movie theatres / gyms / salons / etc. Their immediate inability to pay much of anything rapidly ricochets through landlords / other goods and services and contaminates small businesses. Many SMBs rapidly lay off lots of their employees and start failing. Our economy hits 20% unemployment rapidly. And btw, this isn't just left-leaning hippies like me; it's also folks like Steve Mnuchin [1]. I'm not sure we're in a place where we get to pick good, better, best; I think we get to pick least bad. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/steven-mnuchin-unemployment-warning-coronavirus/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/steven-mnuchin-unemp...