If you're calling for renewed economic shutdowns, read this first.
I want these people who are calling for renewed economic shutdowns to get serious about
- the target they're setting for re-opening,
- how long they think it will take to reach that, and
- how long they think we can have strict shutdowns without a collapse in supply chains that leads to severe shortages, food riots, lack of medical supplies, and the like.
(And don't spin pap about "necessary" businesses; just as nobody knows how to make a pencil, no politico or group of them knows all of the elements necessary to keep production and distribution of medical supplies humming along.)
These people are charging around on their moral high horses pretending they care more, and pretending they understand public policy and the economy well enough to say that this grand experiment is a no-brainer. You know who's not saying that? Any of my educated friends who've studied public policy or economics.
As Darwin said, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." This perfectly describes all of you who've made no study of the relevant fields, but pretend to have knowledge.
I'm angry at your thoughtlessness. I'm angry at your pretense of moral superiority. I'm angry at your commitment to count only one type of harm in your single-entry book keeping. You're not more clever or caring. You're the same type of dangerous fool who refuses to take any action, every bit as blind and stupidly certain as them.