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Message: [QUOTE="jdb50, post: 3526758, member: 1530"] No government was willing to bankrupt their economy. The choice was to stop the vertical rise in cases and hospitalizations or do nothing. Ambulances in Moscow recently have had to que in line for up to 9 hours to try and get a patient admitted. Hospitals there are starting to get swamped and hospital workers are being infected due to poor PPE. What would the impact be if our hospitals were unable to meet demand if we had all stayed in our normal routines? When Redfield made the comment about the coming fall flu season he was right. A bad flu season can put strain on hospitals. A place like Windham Hospital would be full and they would have to open a closed wing to put patients in. Add that to a return of covid-19 and it will be a very bad situation. For the economy I think some of what Andrew Yang was talking about would be necessary. Giving citizens with no work a monthly stipend until it is under control or over. This is money that will never be paid back by anyone. It is firing up the printing presses. People need to face the facts, we are never going to pay off the national debt anyway. It will never happen. The economy is going to be permanently damaged by this pandemic. To think many of us were in Gampel on March 5th watching a great win. [/QUOTE]