[FormerFRLurker]

And yet if we reopen too early and our healthcare system gets overloaded the economy will crash anyway. How’s Italy’s economy doing these days? Our economy has survived and recovered from worse than this. But you can’t bring the dead back to life and there are only so many ICU beds and medical professionals around. As you said, people have to deal with the world as it is, not as they wish it would work. I’d like to go back to work and the gym soon without making a public health crisis worse but that’s not the world we live in now.

The struggles of businesses both great and small are why Congress passed the coronavirus stimulus bill and why many evictions and utility shutoffs are being postponed.

[MNJohnnie]

Nope. We done way to much of this panic mongering “what if we open too early”

We need a serious discussion of what happens if we open too late. Delaying things like evictions or government utility payments does nothing to help the economy survive. It just piles up a bunch of delayed debt that will have to be addressed, It merely spread the pain out, it does not cure it.

Your are so wrong it hurts. Our economy has not seen a hit like this since the 1930s. Not even 09-11 or 2008 did as much damage as this is doing right now. The other thing you really need to start thinking is the US is the engine of the World economy. It not just us that is in the balance

You cannot live in perfect safety ever. You MUST stop fantasizing that there is some sort of shut down that will keep you safe forever. There is not.

Flu kills more people every year, yet none of you go into hysteric panic over it. People need to start taking some personal responsibility and end to this foolish mindset that if just make everyone hide under their for 3 months everything will go back to normal. It will not. The “fix” being purposed here is going to be far worse then the problem.,

We need to stop with the panic mongering and start doing some serious cost data analysis of the effect of the solutions being purposed. We need to stop with this infantile notion that we need to “destroy the economy to save lives”. No we don’t.

[Nifster]

Did you have that worry when H1N1 spiked in November and December and then if thousands were dying

[SauronOfMordor]

And yet if we reopen too early and our healthcare system gets overloaded the economy will crash anyway. How’s Italy’s economy doing these days?

As of this morning, they are on their 5th day where they haven't exceeded their peak from March 21.