Take the measures we are taking’ or ‘we need to be taking these measures so the this doesn’t get out of hand.’ One thing that doesn’t really add up with the ‘economy first’ mentality is this, wouldn’t the economy suffer much more if we reached a state where this got out of control? Let’s say we hit Italy levels of impact (but with our population that would equal a lot more infections and deaths): completely overwhelming the hospitals, physicians choosing who lives or dies, doctors and nurses, working sick, etc. Let’s say every community has multiple deaths. Do you think if we got to that point people would just continue on with business as usual, eating at restaurants, playing sports, living life, etc?

IMO weed be looking at a much bigger (and much longer) economic impact, one that would be harder, if not impossible to recover from.

I’m hoping what we’re doing is enough that in 2-3 weeks Life will be more or less back to normal. But if we didn’t take these measures at all, the economic impact/and daily life impact, could be exponentially worse. Instead of weeks of runs on groceries and shortages, weeks of no in-restaurant dining, weeks on businesses closing or working from home, we are talking several months or more. I think there would likely be much more devastating economic consequences if we waited longer and didn’t do what we can now.

China’s an other area are on the other side of this with very few new cases. It seems that other countries that really took this on early had very minimal infection rates. I’m hoping we’ve done enough soon enough that life will get relatively back to normal in a few weeks. But it could have potentially been much, much worse.