re: Why does our economy have to tank in this setting?

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Problem is...a lot of Congress is bought of by the Chinese

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Problem is...our corporations like the profit margins with cheap Chinese labor,,,and us consumers like buying cheap Chinese goods!

Thought crossed my mind today that I hope this type of thing isn't the new War on Terror. We can't be shutting countries down every couple of years. This had better be a once-in-a-lifetime type of event.

Also, I think you're going to see some politicians and figureheads try to use this as the tipping point in the push for socialized medicine in the U.S.

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Can we learn from this and be proactive? Because, the reality is that something like this will happen again...it's not a matter of if...but when. So, can we enact legislation to protect the economy (our businesses and people) and activate it when a new nasty bug takes off from God knows where. Businesses and regular folks will need protections from creditors for the duration of the social isolation and pause...banks will need to hold cash reserves to protect themselves with federal insurance to protect them after a given time span...and furloughed employees will need temporary employment income (not as much as normal as the legislation needs to allow for pauses w/o penalties for mortgage and major utility bills). With this kind of proactive legislation, we can allow the president to pull the rip cord before the pandemic precautions go into effect and keep the economy from tanking and the market from overreacting. Just an idea to kick around. Sounds better than patchwork bailouts that costs trillions!

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It would be very expensive to maintain hospital space you don’t need just “in case” some dude eats a bat halfway across the world.

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How much have we spent on the TSA for the last two decades? How likely would it have been that another 9/11 would have occurred without them? At what time in the last twenty years has "this would be very expensive" ever been an effective argument in Congress?

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Problem is...our corporations like the profit margins with cheap Chinese labor,,,and us consumers like buying cheap Chinese goods!

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We’re just going to have to give up all of that. It’ll be worth it.

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blanket ban of wet markets

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This should be the main point of emphasis with China. There's been a lot of China bashing on this board...but it's clear they're not going to change their pseudo-Commie ways and human rights violations. However...they HAVE to get rid of these wet markets. SARS1 was contained so there wasn't an uproar to close the markets. NOW...the whole world is paying for these stupid markets, so we (as the rest of the world) should put all efforts on shutting them down.

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Yes. Everything has to be paused for a while and all essential expenses paid for everyone.

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How does this work? Your bill you don’t pay is a paycheck your creditor can’t issue, is a bill his employees can’t pay, etc

The answer isn't increasing beds in case the answer is increasing the capacity to identify and react in a timely manner to threats to the Nation. In this case that would mean increased spending on research and monitoring of emerging health issues globally and locally. We have been incredibly fortunate if this is as bad as it gets....if this thing was somehow airborne and had a death rate like Ebola or AIDS we wouldn't be concerned about small business failings we would be concerned with industrialized nations ceasing to exist. This would mean of course an international effort which would mean some serious diplomatic effort to provide the kind of transparency required but that is what is needed.

We also need to be able to react to emerging crisis when they do blind side us....increased capacity for mobile hospitals like those going up now...timely information about contact and spread and reacting where needed etx. These are things that will take a monumental effort and will be something that has to be done nationally and not by the state...and are things we will spend a lot of time on when this thing is controlled. We have the ability and resources we now have evidence of the necessity.....it is what we do going forward that matters not what we did because we can't change that now.