The length of the interval matters. Everyone's heart pauses for a second or so tens of thousands of times a day, but if your heart pauses for an hour you're dea

The length of the interval matters. Everyone's heart pauses for a second or so tens of thousands of times a day, but if your heart pauses for an hour you're dead. The economy is a lot like your blood circulation - it relies on a continuous flow of money in order for businesses to keep on running and providing people with stuff, and the longer it's shut down for the worse we can probably expect the damage to be.