Originally Posted By: jazzmammal
Are you willing to throw this country's and the entire world's economy's into total ruin over a virus that has a better than a 99% survival rate?

YES!

I don't think you see this in the big picture. Imagine hospitals overwhelmed across the nation. And it is easy to imagine because take a look at Italy right now!

Now think about your comment about it being just "a virus that has a better than a 99% survival rate". Yeah, on its face that sounds like something we can just live with, right?

Well, NO!

The problem is it is new and we have no immunity and no vaccine.

The problem is it spreads fast and far. It already has. trump bragged about us having only 15 cases and said it would soon be zero. Now we have 54,453 people infected that we know of.

Left unchecked, or even left inadequately checked, or America opened up by Easter, means certain overwhelming of our hospitals. Not enough ICU beds. Not enough ventilators. Not enough healthcare pros who are not themselves infected and home sick.

At that point people die who did not need to die. Yes, maybe it affects the elderly more and some seem to think that is a price we can afford. But what about all the people who would normally go to the ER at that point? A very sick baby? A mom who just had a heart attack? A dad in a bad accident? Guess what? Those people die too because the system is overwhelmed!

This is NOT hype! It is already happening in other countries.

And when this happens here how good do you think the economy will be once we have an overwhelmed system and then we must shut it down again? The second time will be far longer and harder.