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I don't care at all if my husband and I catch Covid-19 because the chance that we would experience an illness more severe than the flu is extremely small. And of course reopening things, is going to cause the number of cases to go up.  Yes, many more people will become infected, for the vast majority, they will experience a flu like illness.  Will deaths increase as well?  Of course.  Yes, it's a terrible thing, I don't mean to sound heartless but I simply don't think a disease that kills less than 2% of those infected is worth the damage that this will cause.  Jeff, I really think the main difference between our perspectives is that I am under the belief that economic damage of a prolonged shutdown will be much greater than you believe.  I am not the least bit opposed to extensive government programs to try to mitigate the damage, but I don't think anything we can do will come close to mitigating the damage of a prolonged global shutdown.   [/quote]

[b]I will submit that you likely have no first degree friends who have had this illness or where you have had any sort of day by day account of what this illness is like for those who are impacted by it, but I can assure you, it is not like having a mild or severe flu. It is far, far worse. My friends who are recovering from it (as opposed to the ones who have died) are saying that the peak or the worst they really wanted to just die, it was that bad, and that the recovery is very arduous, some suffering chronic lung issues, others are very lethargic. This is weeks after. So it isn't like a little 3 day flu like thing that you just bounce back from[/b].[/quote]

Yes, I realize all of this.  Avoiding this is not worth causing a global depression.  [/quote]

You know what will cause a global depression? Complete paralysis of the supply chains because cargo ships, airline crews, farmworkers, and factory workers are suffering rolling uncontrolled infections. [/quote]

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