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How do you handle the income for all the people who will lose their jobs?  
Let's just take a single entity of your post:  the gym.  You have to close all the gyms.  So right there the front desk staffers lose their jobs.  The instructors.  The custodians.  How do they survive?
And you can extrapolate this to countless lines of work---vast sectors of society have no ability to telework and will lose all income.

So they you have the white collar class still drawing an income from the sanctuary of their homes and then the entire lower class drawing 1) no income at all or 2)still working in the middle of the virus because their jobs are vital for society--someone has to sell the groceries, check in people at the hospitals, work the gas stations, work at the sewage treatment plants, and on and on.

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I mean, how are the poor tourist related businesses handling the shut down right now?  No one wants to take a trip, cruise industry is going to hurt; at least one airline is going out of business.

And that's without anyone officially shutting them down!

Yes a pandemic is a huge economic problem.

Why do you think stocks are tanking?   It's a big huge economic catastrophe.

Even without officially shutting things down businesses will hurt.  Even without shutting schools down, schools will close.

The idea is to do it ahead of time before things spread too far. Unfortunately most areas just aren't willing to do that.

The countries with experience with SARS seem to be the best able to react more quickly.[/quote]

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