What is the acceptable trade off, for human life vs. 401Ks this week?
Let me turn that around.
What is the unacceptable number of lives lost to the virus?
How many is too many?
(Please spare me the "If it saves just one life", thing, because that ship has sailed. If that was the case, Abortion would have been outlawed 60,000,000 babies ago.)
A few hundred?
A few thousand?
Should we go there for fewer 'casualties' than the ordinary flu season?
Should we wait until it rivals auto accident death tolls?
How long is long enough to shut things down?
Because if that number gets too long, the following apply:
How many people should lose all they have, go bankrupt for the second time in just over a decade, go hungry?
How many should lose all they have, again?
As far as human lives go, those who lose their jobs and businesses and insurance won't be able to afford health care either, should they need it, so even if they weren't in the high risk group, their lives may be forfeit because they likely won't seek health care they just can't afford until it is too late.
How far do you think the economy can crash before it takes another decade or more to recover (Note: the oil industry won't pull it out this time, not with oil in the 20s) or a conflict on the order of WWII to rebuild it?
(We lost 418,500 people in that one.)
You tell me.
What's your perspective?