I have heard good arguments about saving the economy, and I think the opposition to the current plan is necessary to keep our leaders from getting overly lax about their approach. But those arguments usually fall flat for me for a few reasons:

-they often include Polyanna-like predictions about the danger of COVID 19 that are completely out of whack with what the majority of the health experts are saying when it comes to the potential death toll.

-They also usually point to apples and oranges arguments about the flu and other diseases that downplay the severity of the COVID.

-They have not provided a good alternative argument that is persuasive enough to get people to think it will work that doesn't include just letting people die.

-Just letting people die at the numbers that are being predicted and letting the medical system get overwhelmed as has been predicted (and observed in many areas) is not an acceptable solution to me. No other first world country values their economy that much. Every other first world country, when necessary, has taken the steps we are taking. I'm not sure what it says about us if we are the only ones that don't