We have the luxury of being able to choose whether and what should be open or not. and for how long.
And we also have the choice to not leave home or participate in anything we choose or not.
Now we have people doing our shopping for us.....for almost anything.
Our retirement revenue/income (for most of us) is not dependent on opening or closing of anything.
The real issue is just how long can businesses be shut down before they go out of business?
How long can the government be handing out money to people who are out of work?
In the short term we are paying a price with objectives to flatten the curve and start back to normal.
Both the small and large businesses are approaching their survival limit. Many would not be able to survive stopping or back to closing down.
Whether we like it or not America cannot survive a return to shutting down again. The price has already been paid to do that. We are going to be faced with decisions to be made just like we have on current and past prices to be paid.....lives lost to the flu each and every year....lives lost on the highway each and every day.....we will be facing the same outlook/attitude/tolerance toward Covid-19 numbers......until such time as there is a cure or vaccine (maybe 50% will opt to get).
It is likely shutting down America will end the ability for many to ever get back to any semblance of past levels of normal.
There will be different price to be paid.....that will become, like so many others, tolerable.
I do hope I am wrong.
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