They also forced people back to work. So which is it? I'm talking about the threat here in America. Shutting down everything is going to hurt people more than we know.
You realize in Italy they shut everything down and STILL overran their health care system to the degree that they had to just let people die because they didn't have enough respirators?
My sister is a physician's assistant and she said already last week they had to change the safety protocols on masks because they were running out. Now instead of wearing a different mask for each patient, they wear the same mask until it becomes moist and unusable. And the outbreak hasn't even hit yet.
Every projection on this thing, including the real shyt that already happened in China and Italy, shows that so many folk go into intensive care that it creates an unprecented strain on the hospital system. Imagine we kept all the events going and let the virus spread normally, so 1/3 of the country gets the virus and even just 5% of them are in intensive care (both very low estimates). Do you think we have the facilities to handle FIVE MILLION people in intensive care? Or even one million?
And that wouldn't just spell doom for the victims, that would fukk up the survival chances of everyone who needed hospital attention in that period.