Let people die for the Economy

The point is is very simple: if 2-3 months is enough to bankrupt a theater, a hotel, a restaurant, etc then those institutions existed on a shallow foundation of twigs. A healthy economy with legitimate stability and growth would find most of its businesses having a surplus of funds, especially those that reported a profit for each quarter of the year for the last decade or so. Take note that people in China, regular workers who are making slave wages, ended up pulling together and donating their savings toward Wuhan, is the same happening in the US with New York? No. Maybe in Paris or England? no and no.Maybe a dollar or two but not a portion of what they spent a couple years saving up.

Regarding a world wide depression: yes the western, and some parts of the far eastern, world will find itself in a depression. Of course countries like China won't be hit the hardest considering they exist primarily on manufacturing of commodities and have a strong foundation(which was being continuously built up since the 1980s) that can sustain a closed economy(or exist without depending on other countries completely). Unlike the West who exist primarily from services with a population drowning in household dept.

Yes, people need to go back to school and work, just like workers and students are in Wuhan but the response in Wuhan is why these students and workers are able to transition to a normal life while the same act in the West could potentially bring a second wave.

AS for who can get infected, so far the old and those with compromised symptoms weren't the only ones getting infected

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