From Patrick Henry:
They can reopen whenever they want as far as I am concerned.
However, this is my perspective on at least some businesses.
Yesterday, right before I shut Dan Bongino off for yelling and cursing at me over the economy, he complained that his friend, who had recently opened a baseball card shop, could not stay in business, because he hasn’t had a customer in three weeks.
While I feel for this person, even if he opens his shop today, I won’t be shopping in it. I don’t need baseball cards. I’m not going to risk contracting CCP-19 for baseball cards, or comic books or any other such items. I don’t have the money for them either. I’m also not working.
So I don’t know what to tell Dan or his friend. There’s going to be some economic fallout from this, even if it ends right now.
So you wouldn't have been a customer even without the virus. I'm having a hard time figuring out what your point is.
You’re actually a good example of why it would probably be a good idea to end the lockdown now. I’m 77, overweight, and have type II diabetes. No way I’m going to go out any more than I have to until things quiet down, making the environment a lot safer for me. However, there are lots more people who are younger and healthier than I am. The airlines nearly shut down substantially before the lockdown because a lot of people like you and me chose not to fly. Indeed, most people can be trusted to act in their own self interest, unless they’ve been hair on fire panicked by a bunch of radical communist media who want to destroy the economy and take down President Trump. Thus, freeing things up will save a lot of very good people from economic destruction and not seriously injure those of us in high risk groups because all we need to do is continue taking the reasonable precautions many of us began taking before the lockdown.