re: Wall St Jour - No society can safeguard public health at the cost of its economic health.

Agreed. In an ideal world or best case scenario we pass the worker relief and the least damaging worker and business relief package possible get the payments out in April and May keeping people mostly afloat financially for say the next 6 to 8 weeks. Hopefully use the shutdown to develop and produce as much medical equipment (ventilators, gloves, and protective masks) as well any and all promising and effective medicines to treat the virus over that time.

After 6 or 8 weeks tops one would think we'll be at a point where the curve has at least flattened and hopefully gone down and the number of medical supplies and tests as well as the supply of effective drugs to treat the virus have gone up to the point where almost everyone including those without symptoms can be or have been tested and hospitals have plenty of the drugs and medical infrastructure to treat the vast number of patients that get infected.

Either way, we as a country may unfortunately have to get back to work in no more than 6 or 8 weeks and may be forced to simply let the chips fall where they may with the virus. We obviously can't go on with an indefinite lockdown of the economy for months on end much less indefinitely.