So in summary the entire economy was not shut down no matter how grandiose and exaggerated the claim, not when you are trying to use it to substantiate an argument.
The shutdown was an order of magnitude smaller than the entire economy.
The shutdown was an order of magnitude smaller than the entire economy.
However it also wasn’t an order of magnitude less. According to this WSJ report [1], lockdowns took at least 1/4 of the economy offline.
1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-coronavirus-shutdowns-hav...