[entropy12]

Personally I am all for a 14 days lock down to stop spreading the virus and then isolate those who are sick with symptoms.
But 401-k owners are not going to be happy.

[Solson]

us 401k holders are going to be much more unhappy if this lasts months and take the world into a depression...and that’s not out of the realm of possibility.

[cgbg]

I am all for a 14 days lock down to stop spreading the virus and then isolate those who are sick with symptoms.

This is _exactly_ what public officials will be proposing in some areas in the next week or two.

It will be too little too late.

Here is why:

--The disease has a two week latency period. Most of the people who have the disease will not be showing symptoms (because the disease spread is exponential--at the growth phase the number of patients infected within the past two or three days is greater than the total of previous positives).

--We do not have enough tests even to test "people showing symptoms" so we can't quarantine most of them. Well technically there are test kits but we do not have enough lab materials and lab equipment to use them.

--We have nowhere to put people in quarantine so we would be doing "voluntary quarantine"--that has a significant percentage of folks sneaking out so more leakage there.

No half measures--it just causes confusion, and does not begin to address the problem.