re: Kaylee Hartung describes her experience with Covid-19

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ETA Spare me your own personal interpretation of the statistics as if none of these people or respected organizations and institutions could possibly be having the same thoughts you are and still feel that social distancing is necessary.

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They aren’t the ones that have to pay the damn bill. How are they (whoever it is you are referring to) in a position to weigh benefits and costs if they aren’t paying the costs? This shite is already going to cost over $1T in the US alone based on proposed bills. The producers in this country will once again foot that bill. Losing producers is a big deal.

The people on the financial side of this are predicting just as much doom and gloom but we are just ignoring those opinions? The fed chair said yesterday this could lead to 20% unemployment which would be the worst in American history, particularly when just a month ago we were at levels that were best in the country’s history. If we believe worst case projections on either side that is pretty damn severe and you should take it as seriously as you want me to take as the health organizations (who do not in any way consider economic impacts outside of their own agencies).

Luckily, financial impacts are measured by markets, that data is real and readily available. This is having a very real impact in that regard.

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They are frustrated with their hopefully short-term economic pain and simply can't see anything else.

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Hopefully is a big word there. You are clearly downplaying the economic impact just as you are accusing those that you disagree with of downplaying the health impact.

The economy is a system, it is built upon and relies on all the industries within it to operate efficiently. One failed component can, and has, brought the whole system down.