People work at that cafe and use their income to feed and house their families, and to provide them with healthcare.
Don’t be dismissive of these concerns, they are very real.
Don’t be dismissive of these concerns, they are very real.
I don't think we can make such a blanket assertion. The US markets have lost 10T in value over the past month. If the virus infects 70% of the US population with a 2% mortality rate, 4.2M ppl will die. It's obviously not so simple, but we're sacrificing $2.4M in market cap per life saved. At some point, the tradeoff makes no sense in light of the fact that we could invest in life saving technologies/solutions that save more lives down the road.
We can and should essentially shut down the country