CLIFF NOTES to a crisis

During the 1918 Flu Pandemic these same measures were put in place in order to slow/stop the spread of the disease outbreak. I'm not saying in any way that anyone here is over-reacting (far from it, actually), but I am seeing cray cray conspiracy theorists talking on other social media sites about our Constitutional rights being trampled, martial law coming soon, yada yada yada. It's silly and preposterous, our rights weren't restricted after it ended, and the country eventually recovered. It does provide a valuable lesson in comparing how that went vs today - those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it and all that.

Americans were again asked in WWII to sacrifice for the greater good of the country. We have now had more Americans die from this coronavirus than died in the 9/11 attacks. The numbers Dr. Fauci stated in his interview with Jake Tapper is twice the number who died in the Vietnam War, and if we hadn't implemented any measures, Fauci said we could have more deaths than all wars we fought in combined. It should be a sobering thought that motivates us all to do our part and come together to help one another.

Yes, this is going to hurt the economy, but consider what 2 million deaths will do to it? Do you truly think the economy will come out better if we don't keep isolation procedures in place? The loss of any unique life being immeasurable, and not to minimize it in any way, what will be the impact on the economy if that many workers/business owners/nonprofit leaders die? Consider all of the downstream ramifications.