[aigel]

Matt - you witness right here that we are working on the greys. This board is a good cross section of people that are out there.

We are stuck between a rock and a hard place:
If we don't pause, we will have a runaway situation that causes great human suffering AND economic demise. If half our population would get infected in a couple months, nobody could work much either or buy goods or partake in activities. Either you are sick, or one of your family is, and one out of 6 will be down hard needing medical intervention. Once we go this direction it will be unstoppable.
If we pause too long and too aggressive we may help on the virus front but we will have economic suffering that can cause human suffering as well. We may have people become homeless, not have enough to eat etc. But this is a situation that can be easier managed AND reversed by doing soft turn on programs like we are discussing.

Personally I doubt our society will melt down over an economic crash including it causing people to die in high numbers. People worried about this do certainly care about their fellow humans but I have a hunch they also peek at their stock portfolio out of the corner of their eyes.

G