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Here's a very thorough look at why simply saying that businesses can reopen won't help much, if at all: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228651/o...c-shutdown

And it's worth noting that nothing in there assumes that reopening earlier will lead to more cases. If it does (as is widely suspected) then the outlook would be even worse.

Wow. In other news, water is wet.

Of course businesses that open won't have customers beating the doors down to get in. It will take time, and I'm guessing the governors and the president have figured that out. Start slowly, correct?

The customers won't show up because they don't have any money.  They don't have any money because 22 million have been laid off.  Oh excuse me, as of tomorrow morning, another 4.5 million will be laid off.

What do you propose instead? I think I've asked you this in probably a half dozen threads, and you never answer. What, specifically, would you do? What businesses should re-open? How should we handle the lack of PPE? Since the burden of reopening falls hardest on low-income service workers, how do we as a society help shoulder the costs in lives and illnesses that they are likely to incur? 

And let's start with your firm - what would you tell your bosses to do to "reopen" the economy? What are they unnecessarily holding back from doing to restart their business, in your opinion?

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Here's a very thorough look at why simply saying that businesses can reopen won't help much, if at all: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228651/o...c-shutdown

And it's worth noting that nothing in there assumes that reopening earlier will lead to more cases. If it does (as is widely suspected) then the outlook would be even worse.

Wow. In other news, water is wet.

Of course businesses that open won't have customers beating the doors down to get in. It will take time, and I'm guessing the governors and the president have figured that out. Start slowly, correct?

The customers won't show up because they don't have any money.  They don't have any money because 22 million have been laid off.  Oh excuse me, as of tomorrow morning, another 4.5 million will be laid off.

What do you propose instead? I think I've asked you this in probably a half dozen threads, and you never answer. What, specifically, would you do? What businesses should re-open? How should we handle the lack of PPE? Since the burden of reopening falls hardest on low-income service workers, how do we as a society help shoulder the costs in lives and illnesses that they are likely to incur? 

And let's start with your firm - what would you tell your bosses to do to "reopen" the economy? What are they unnecessarily holding back from doing to restart their business, in your opinion?