We Also Spend a Lot of Money

People who make points like this as though they are epic owns fundamentally don't understand the difference between infectious diseases and maladies like cancer or heart disease that don't spread from person to person. Big yikes. https://t.co/kOpoG2uXZ1

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020

....researching carcinogens and trying to remove them from the environment, as well as trying to change behaviors which can obviate heart attacks.  If we could do something as a society to precent Alzheimer's, we would.

All of these things require changes in behavior much more long-lasting than working from home and limiting the places you can go for a month or two.

Reported US coronavirus deaths:

9 weeks ago: 1 death
8 weeks ago: 19 deaths
7 weeks ago: 58 deaths
6 weeks ago: 323 deaths
5 weeks ago: 2,043 deaths
4 weeks ago: 8,488 deaths
3 weeks ago: 20,604 deaths
2 weeks ago: 38,903 deaths
1 week ago: 53,789 deaths
Right now: 66,369 deaths

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) May 3, 2020

I think that number of fatalities in 10 weeks is deserving of a bit more attention than just complaining about "shutting down the country."  Especially since a lot of people have been working that entire 10 weeks, most of them at low-paying jobs with little or not benefits and great risks of infection.

Maybe we could spare a thought for them.

And as for the "everything will be different when this is over:"  traffic in my nieghborhood is up significantly as of yesterday, the first day the "stay at home orders" were relaxed.  A lot of small business owners are desperate for things to get back to "normal," and judging from the traffic, so are no small number of people around me.  Had this gone on for 4 years, like our involvement in WWII, it might have changed things.  2 months?  Get real.  Culture doesn't alter near that rapidly or fundamentally.