Quote Originally Posted by CR75 View Post
Forcing businesses to shut down does *nothing* to eliminate the virus, and there is very thin, controversial scientific evidence that it helps slowing it down. Meanwhile, millions are loosing health care coverage and the means to support themselves, that is a hard fact.
This isn't true. Viruses will die out if they cannot replicate in a new host. That is a pretty basic scientific concept. We also now have a lot of evidence that economic shutdowns in China, Europe, and specific regions in the U.S., halted the coronavirus's spread. The evidence of that is beyond a shadow of a doubt.

The fact is that if the southern and western states had locked down and followed CDC guidelines about how to reopen, we'd be past this already.