I reject your premise. We aren’t facing a Civil War nor the 1918 pandemic. It’s not yet an established fact that Covid-19 is comparable to the 1918 flu. A shut-down for two weeks to assess the situation was prudent. Keeping the engine that drives our economy and much of the world’s shut down past Easter will eventually hurt us more than help us.
Living is a calculated risk. It’s why people carry insurance. IMO, we should take proper precautions, brave the dangers, and get back to work.
“ A shut-down for two weeks to assess the situation was prudent. Keeping the engine that drives our economy and much of the world’s shut down past Easter will eventually hurt us more than help us.”
I do not disagree with you. But shutting down the nation’s economy IS an existential crisis. That is unprecedented, even in war. If it went on, it’d be suicide pact. And the insurance companies can’t cover it, they won’t survive it either.
In the situation we are in now, with the public thinking as they do, we have to have a cure or a treatment, without that this country will not come through this and be even close to the same.