There's a lot of very heavy stones that'd need to be moved to make that happen. For a good start, you'd need every single bank to just pause every single loan.

There's a lot of very heavy stones that'd need to be moved to make that happen. For a good start, you'd need every single bank to just pause every single loan. And to pass that down the chain, every single landlord to stop charging rent. And between these two basically impossible feats, you've solved a grand total of one problem. I think we'd need to nationalise every single essential good, and the entire supply chain behind it, and then just .. turn off capitalism for a few months. Just go full on communism for a fixed term. Have the weirdest Christmas party ever, and then just start 2021 like 2020 never happened. I don't want to call it actually impossible. But I rate our chances of forming a single planetary republic - Star Trek style - in time to actually act against this infection, as more likely. And you can be as naive as you like, but I'm sure you can imagine how minuscule a number that is too.