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Originally Posted by tk13
If there are thousands of people dying a day due to a disease the economy is going to crater. Especially if there is no confidence in the government to do anything about it, especially if they've decided "Let's all go back to normal and whoever dies, dies."
The idea that people are going to go out and spend money and keep the economy afloat in that scenario has gotta be pretty small. And that doesn't even factor the large number of people who are going to get sick and be out of commission for two weeks. It'd be more chaos than we're seeing right now.
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There is a middle ground. People working from home if at all possible, avoiding big social gatherings, etc. My tirade started from the idea that we should be enforcing greater and greater measures of extreme shutdown, to the exclusion of all reason, and plunge ourselves into full-on economic depression while chasing a goal that we won't even achieve.