Opening now is a big mistake.
We have eliminated diseases before, and we will eliminate this one too, as long as we stick with what is working. Yellow fever and malaria used to be endemic in the US, but we have so effectively eliminated them that no one alive now remembers when they used to be significant killers.
Right now, the rate of growth of new Covid-19 cases in the US is falling. As long as we keep this up, we will reach a point where there are no more new cases.
The economy will NOT recover if the virus is allowed to spread uncontrollably. In fact, the economic impact will be much worse.
So we bankrupt ourselves, destroy our country along with people dying and starving, but we will save ourselves from the virus. It is Illogical and lacks Common Sense.
By that rational then we should close down for every disease that comes out, Flu, this Virus, any Virus, etc. and etc..
We have tried to suppress this by artificial means and yes we will have new cases when we open, but keep in mind the main vectors for the spread have been the Nursing Homes, their workers, and hospitals along with their workers. Neither situation has been addressed and continues.
So tell how when we have 50 Million plus unemployed and 50% of restaurants and small businesses never reopening then what? More people will die from a lack of food, inability to pay bills, other diseases, and the fact many hospitals will close.
We will have destroyed our tax base and government will either cease to exist, and/or will be laying off the very people and stopping the very services we need. The Federal Government and The Fed cannot and will not be able to bail the states out. Who will buy all the new debt to finance that, The Fed Itself?
It’s obvious we have politicians who have not thought past today and are not seeing the Big Picture along with being now drunk with power doing all sorts of things that are blatantly Unconstitutional. Ponder all that and get back to me.
We did not shut down with Yellow Fever, Malaria or any other disease including the Spanish Flu. Go back and check the stats of the 1968 Hong Kong Flu and tell me why we did not shut down then.