Objectively intelligent.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

This seems like an emergent position on the right, and one that more people will espouse once Trump gets antsy and calls to end social distancing to try to get the economy going again. I think the politics of this aren't going to play well, though.

What do people mean when they refer to the "economy?" Are they talking about just the stock market? Or are they talking about the effect a depression/recession will have on American lives/businesses? Putting millions of people out of work. Putting companies that will never come back out of business. Destroying the economic lives of 10x (just throwing that number out there) the amount of people who may perish. Should we destroy the economy to save 10 lives? 100? 1000? 100,000? Again, just thinking out loud - not promoting this position. It's just the econ-based part of my brain that thinks about these things in a cost/benefit way..the other parts of my brain think this part is disgusting.