No offense, man, but you’re not being as rational as you think.

This thing runs wild as under our current strategy, and the cost absolutely has the same potential or more to collapse the economy, close businesses and schools, bankrupt individuals and states, increase suicides and mental health issues, etc.

Civilization won’t collapse from Covid-19, but the economy most certainly will, possibly followed by the nation.

The arguments for and against mitigation are always centered around deaths. This is a huge mistake, in my opinion. There is a wide cost to the herd immunity plan. Herd immunity may financially stress or even bankrupt insurance companies who will not be able to make payouts for the massive numbers of sick. If that happens, no one has insurance when they get sick and need hospital, whether it’s from Coronavirus or not. How is that a better plan? What’s going to be the trickle down fallout of the healthcare industry collapses to the economy at large? How is this a feasible plan? Do you think people will be so blasé about their risk then? How do you think that’s going to affect wealth parity?

It’s false to say the economy will be fine if we don’t attempt mitigation. There’s no reason to think it will be. It’s not about the people who die, it’s the number who get sick, how badly they get sick, how long they are sick, and the level of their recovery over time. It’s about how much of a hit hospitals and doctors can take in one spike and also over time before they give out and collapse. And what happens then.