re: So, Here's My Question. Can Our Economy Survive 4-5 More Weeks of Virtual Shutdown?

Yeah, I mean it's no doubt a dire crisis. Very dire. And when someone says that there's typically a knee jerk reaction by people immediately challenging the virulence of CV. And those people make good points. But the CV component is merely one piece of the crisis pie. Other slices are - the nature of the people in general, of the citizenry at large (nervousness, runs on groceries and other sundry wild reactions); MSM executing a unfortunately rather effective division operation; the fact that it is a worldwide crisis, every man for himself internationally; the effect on the economy; and also that aforementioned ongoing oil crisis; I'm probably leaving out a couple of other main slices.

But when you smash all those things together at the exact same time, that's the "unprecedented crisis" we're dealing with. Like smashing atoms together. Yuuge.