Yeah, I share your concern Iforrest.
The corona virus is going to be with us until we build immunity and develop a vaccine - it is like a common cold with a possibility of killing you.
I am not sure why we have decided that tanking our economy is going to help
Hi Aspen,
Nice to read you again.
As for your question: I’m neither a virologist nor an economist, but as far as I can gather we are witnessing something that actually gives me a little hope for humankind:
As much as our capitalist societies have made the economy their golden calf, they still value human life above money and don’t want to see scenarios like in Italy where doctors had to decide who to treat and who to let suffocate just because they had too many patients at once to cope. So it makes sense to flatten the infection-curve.
I had to shut down my beloved small business due to Corona. So my income at the moment isn’t zero, it’s minus. If that means that not all of my vulnerable employees and customers end up in hospital at the same time but get ill one by one and thus closing my business increases their respective chances of survival, I’m fine with that.
As for our financial worries: I’m reading Matthew 6:25-36 over and over these days. You know: the passage with the lilies on the field that tells us not to worry about material things.
That said: Of course living in a country, that has a halfway decent social security net, helps, too. If I lived in the USA I’d be definitely closer to getting into panic-mode right now. But who knows, maybe this entire thing helps more Americans to realize the importance of such ‘socialist’ follies, such as paid sick-leave, public health-insurance and some sort of welfare-system.
May God keep all of you guys safe,
junobet