Not political.
Speaking only for the USA, we do have to get our economy open again, and as soon as possible.
All of the Government Freebies and bailouts, are NOT free. Money does NOT grow on trees.
Every dollar printed off of the Treasury printing press has a price.
That price is dollar devaluation.
Paying unemployment to millions of out of work Americans is not free.
We and our children and their children will be paying for this for decades.
Americans need to utilize the precautions that we have been taught, to lower our infections and death rates.
But, we cannot all stay home and collect unemployment. Our entire economy would collapse.
Already, the ramifications from this virus on all of our businesses is huge.
Unfathomable actually.
We are in a war for our country and way of life.
People will die, and people will be wounded.
Still, we must go back to work. Taking care of the vulnerable and using all protection strategies.
Moo
Yeah, but we're not going to (follow the precautions). Virtually no one is. As we reopen (my county is having a soft reopen as I type), everyone is acting exactly and precisely as if it were before CoVid (except those of us who are "virtue signaling" by wearing masks and social distancing). Plus, apparently many people are so exuberant and individualistic and impulsive they cannot help but rush up to people they know (or barely know) and get really close.
Everyone is "vulnerable" in the sense that, except for under-20s (who are going to get older), people can have lifelong consequences from CoVid. But hey. It'll only be 2-5% of us.
(When I ask students whether they'd walk to their cars if there if 1 out 50 of them would drop into a 100 foot hole in the ground, they say "no"; when I ask them if they would walk outside in there were lots of bees - and only 1 person in our building of 1000 students would get stung - 80% say no)
But when it comes to social distancing, it's different. There's no inherent "sting," it's so pleasurable. Frankly, what I'm reading in my online classes seems to say that many are relieved they no longer have to go to family gatherings (old people there) but can go out with their friends instead.
So yes, people will die, mostly older people (which has some social costs, if those people are our best doctors and so forth) but hey, it's okay if we have to relearn many things from scratch (at least from the POV of the learners).
The thing is, the very people who don't want the distancing and want to "get back to work" may find that the very people who could afford their services (nurses, doctors, techs, accountants, business managers, teachers, computer scientists, etc, etc) are not going to go to stores, restaurants, etc.
What then? Stores are closing (permanently) in locations all around where I live. It's very very sad. And I think we will keep printing money, so costs will be passed on more or less equally to everyone, thereby hurting the poorer groups even more. A regressive tax, so to speak.
We need a good treatment and some vaccines.
If it mutates even a little (like the version causing the Kawasaki's) we are truly screwed and it will be truly tragic, but definitely brought upon ourselves as a species.
