The Corona virus is going to be with us for years, perhaps forever. We cannot keep everyone hunkered down at home for years. We have to farm the land, plant the crops, bring in the harvest. Process the food, turning oats into Quaker Oats and corn into Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Distributing it to the markets. Providing furnace oil and motor gasoline and diesel fuel and jet fuel. Clothing, shelter, rail transportation, medicine, electric power, fresh water, and a zillion other life essential things. We can shut down for a few weeks and live off inventory, but very shortly inventory will run out and we have to get back to work and grow and make stuff.
And time doesn't make much difference. Corona virus is pretty infectious, if we go out, we are liable to catch it. It will be the same a year from now. Only a vaccine will solve the problem and everyone says a vaccine is at least a year away. I am thinking that we have to accept our losses (deaths) from Corona virus and get on with running the country, and we might as well do it in a week.
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