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

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Can we learn from this and be proactive?

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Probably not. Just look around at those demanding people hole up in their homes, business shutting down (even essential ones), etc. In the long arc, when the data is in and better scientists have had time to look at it along with the measures taken, it will probably show that the whole "flattening the curve" mantra has been wholly ineffective, the number and rate of infection changed very little compared to what it would have otherwise been. But that won't change the minds of politicians and doctors with side-salad MPH degrees who are ginning up their self-importance for all they are worth right now. None of this will come out until well after this has passed and normal life resumed, the MSM will astutely ignore anything that contradicts the current narrative and the unthinking masses won't care so nothing will really change. Warehouses stocked full of hastily produced ventilators will go to rot in the years before the next pandemic sends the world into bed-shitting paroxysm.