The only people asking this are people who aren’t lost anyone, and I feel like a number of people who are asking are people who still have their jobs and have been more inconvenienced than anything else.
Americans too often live paycheck to paycheck and would rather spend oodles on some 50 inch tv than save. If we cannot bounce back after... what, three or four months of some real shut downs (and it isn’t all businesses, no by a long shot) with trillions of dollars being given out to tide people over... then we are doing something wrong as a people. We can get through this as a country, and I would wager the vast majority of jobs will come back... and for those whose jobs don’t, I hope they have the education and experience and toughness to get back to work in SOME way, and I hope that my tax dollars can help them do that.
So yes. When projections are looking at a million or more dead, it is worth it. Sucks, for sure... my wife’s business went under over the course of like four days, and it sucks... I’m an elementary school teacher, and to have a six figure income just... vanish... sucks for my family. Plus the damn landlord isn’t giving ANY leeway, and getting any sort of loan to help with the rent is impossible. Years building it, only to have to collapse. But if it means hundreds of thousands of people going home to their families, it is worth it... she is a hard worker, and good at her job, and we will bounce back, hopefully with my 79 year old mother and my 75 year old mother in law with lung issues still alive and snuggling with their grandkids.
