Here's the situation our country is in right now as I see it.
Can we afford a 6 week lock down? NO
Can we afford to not have a 6 week lock down? NO
Either way there are going to be massive amounts of people that are going to get fukked. We know for sure... that the economy would suffer terribly if we had a 6 week lock down. But what we don't know yet is how bad it's going to be if we open things up without any type of lock down.
In situations like this I've learned that most people will choose the unknown. They'll roll the dice because they know for sure that the alternative is going to be bad. But often times.... when people choose the unknown... they don't realize that their choice is actually worse than what they could have chosen to begin with. I fear that this might be the case we are in right now. But we just don't know how bad it's going to be yet if we don't lock down. But a few months from now... let's say around election time... we'll have a better idea of what we should have done. Either way it's going to be ugly.