Your money analogy left out the fact that the interest paid on that installment plan is the destruction of jobs, businesses, investments and the economy. How much is the government on the hook for now? 5 trillion? Maybe? If the number of deaths reaches 80,000 here soon, that's over $62,000,000 per person. And that's just the governments tab. Add all of the losses of every business closed up for 2 months or maybe forever. Jobs and investments lost. Foreclosures, bankruptcies. We could have quarantined all the old people in 5 star hotels, with butlers, nurse and the best medical care available and saved a pile of money.

People's memories are short. The shutdown was supposed to be temporary to take the pressure of a surge off of the hospitals. Except for a few places, there was no surge. Preps made in NewYork were largely unused. Yet we still can't go to work, or the restaurant or the race track.

Now you can say the shutdown stopped the spread. And I can say that many more people had it than even know it and people were dealing with it and dying from it before it was even in the news. Or that outside of nursing homes, the elderly and those already unhealthy or chronically ill, it was total overkill based on the threat posed to normal, healthy people.

Ventilators killed many people. The numbers I see, very few people survived if they got to that point. But the hospital made a substantial bump in the money being paid for every person they put on one of those machines. The things that make you go hmmmmm.

Maybe you have an elderly person in your household or someone you need to have regular contact with. That could be an issue. But that's on you to be a responsible person. Unless you're the kind of person who might stick his hand under a running lawnmower or dump hot coffee on his lap because you didn't know you shouldn't do those things, you should be able to figure out how to do the right thing.

Rather than talk about it, this is a summary of why Pennsylvania's economy has been devastated, lives ruined, billions in wealth up in smoke, citizens are supposed to stay locked in their homes and recreational activities have been shut down. It sucks. There are no good choices. Only bad or worse. We sure picked worse.