They are called country club conservatives. See older poll below.
“HOWEVER, YOU want everyone ELSE to get back to work because YOUR portfolio is suffering.”
I think a lot of the rage about how this is unconstitutional, over reacting, the cure is worse than the disease, etc. is coming from well funded people who are physically protected themselves, they know they won’t get the virus, but their companies are suffering, and they want everyone to go back to work.
They understand the problem, they just prefer the “burn through” approach. They probably prefer martial law, too, to keep things intact during the process.
Total fatalities is not their concern. They are wiling to have more fatalities in order to get their companies back online sooner.
They are already looking forward to and planning on the investments they can make during the rebuilding phase.
No one is saying you have to go to work. What you want is the government being the nanny state telling you what to do.
Most cases are mild.
If you choose to stay home, fine. Don’t take that choice away from others.
Those people don’t understand what happens to the economy if 2 or 3% of the population ends up with a million dollar medical bill.
And what happens when those derivative risk pools unwind catastrophically.
Great depression will be the good old days if the latter happens.
It’s like the main ‘get back to work you peasants!’ flubro. Who has a trust fund! What a piker.
We’d better hope those antivirals do the trick. I didn’t hate the trust fund/portfolio people before... but I’m working on it now...
One of the problems with burn through is that at some point it would become politically impossible—even if attempted.
No western government (and we will have to see about dictatorships) can survive mass casualties and total collapse of the health care system, even if they wanted to go there.
That is why Boris finally threw in the towel on it—his staff just ran the numbers and told him he would be voted out of office at best—and hung from a London street corner at worst.
IOW, some people care more about money that others.
Crises like this really do reveal a person’s true character.