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

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This goes way way way beyond just restaurants and bars. There isn't a single sector in the economy other than government and healthcare that won't feel this sting.

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Company I work for is printing money..,.. and we’re neither of those two

NO!

Supply train gets disrupted and then all hell breaks lose. It's going to be ugly.

What a stupid statement. You do realize that all these wars (Not civil) of the 19th century were fought overseas? At no point was business just turned off like it is now. This is a first time occurrence, and nobody knows how it will unfold. Most of these small businesses can’t have interruption for two weeks much less two months of no sales.

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.

I think a shutdown until April 30 is going to kill a lot of otherwise healthy shopping malls, restaurants, bars, and hospitality businesses.

We are in uncharted waters and I think we may be in serious trouble.

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There's no historical data you could base that prediction on, so what else is it based on?

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1. The current oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia depressing per barrel prices.
2. Weakened demand due to a) people working at home and not needing to buy as much gas (my case) and/or b) people out of work and not needing gas to get to a job which they no longer have.

Yeah, that looks like a pretty good assessment to me, and no doubt it's a rather nasty kicker to an already substantially ugly situation. It may come down to mere hope that some intervening factor diverts an absolute worst case scenario, however we define that. Let's just hope it doesn't come to that.