This is an argument I developed a couple days ago. Close all the businesses in the even zip codes, and leave all those in odd zip codes open. If it is a bar or restaurant, only serve people who live first in the even zip codes, then the odd. A three stage would be 1-3, 4-6, 7-0, if that makes sense in any given city.
Or do it alphabetically. It doesn’t matter. You keep some segment of the economy going, and are able to give an end date to the people you are asking to stay home, which is vital. If you know when an ordeal is going to end–running 26.2 miles–it is vastly easier than “run until we say stop.”
Yes, I get that there are unknowns. There are ALWAYS fucking unknowns. What is NOT an unknown is that our ECONOMY IS GOING TO HIT THE CRAPPER HARD if we stay on this idiotic path.
And I would suggest that never in human history has there been so much panic over a disease which is over quickly for most people, and in many of whom it doesn’t even have symptoms. In every culture around the world for all of history, the old have periodically died in larger numbers from illnesses of various sorts. But even there, we can protect our elderly. We just ask them to stay home.
This whole thing will be seen as madness soon. But the Trump era has been filled with madness. Not from him–he is one of the few sane men in public politics. But from people like Chuck Schumer, who in the space of a week accused Trump of doing too much and then too little. WHILE they were criticizing his response for being insufficient he and Nancy were trying to undo his travel ban. This shit is UNBELIEVABLE.
I ask again: how fucking stupid are most Americans? I don’t think we know yet.