According to the CDC, 80,000* peopled died of the regular flu in 2017 (highest number in 40 years). Flu deaths could be slashed to a fraction of this number if current public intervention policies were implemented during "flu season". But they were not.

So we at least have already decided that 80,000 lives are NOT worth the economic cost of current measures.

I get it that there is uncertainty with covid 19 and accuracy of models projecting how bad this epidemic will be are problematic, which justifies an abundance of caution. But there needs to be plans including the conditions under which a return economic stability will begin.

This has to include acceptable death rates, and at this point, it is AT LEAST 80,000 per year within the U.S. We have already decided this is acceptable.

*https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/