I think its a question of priorities. I grew up poor. My train of thought tends to favor people over profits. I dont care if a business fails. I know someone will take their place and the government will spend big money to keep their pet giant companies in business.
Couple of fallacies here.. The Fed govt can't print money FAST ENOUGH to keep BOTH the STATES and 1/2 of the businesses afloat.. Not gonna happen. "pets" or not.. Mom/Pop biz is gonna be extinct for a LONG time.. When you LET businesses fail we run out of eggs, toilet paper, appliances, maybe airlines and everything else.. That blanket of "I don't care" is ill-considered.. You don't live in Nevada whose entire economy in contained in 2 tourist meccas... Might be OK for YOU to let it turn back into desert... But that's DAMN selfish..
THe STATES are gonna start failing pretty quickly one after another if this whacko "freeze" on the economy continues much after April... And it's NOT an "all or nothing" restart.. Makes sense to allow STATES to decide how to bring back normal...
Seems to me all the smart doctors advise caution over worrying about the economy. That will take care of itself. The economy will always come back. Thats unless everyone is dead of the virus and we are too weak to stave off a probable military attack.
There are NO economic models for this "experiment'.. NEVER been contemplated or done before.. Once the MALLS and barber shops and dental offices close for good and retail real estate crashes, the ACCESS the poor have to supply themselves will not be local and will NOT profit the immediate communities... You need to ponder this "experiment" more.. In your zeal to bring it down, you're KILLING the economic income in POOR communities at the LOWEST levels and PROTECTING the amazons of the world..
As for the med advice.. This entire outbreak has reached LESS THAN 1% of the US POPULATION as of now.. And only 1/2 as many have sought medical advice or treatment.. It's a 99% economic problem.. And a 1% medical issue... The BEST advice is to "lock down" the medically vulnerable and elderly and stage ALL OTHERS back to work... Because the average AGE of dead CV-19 patient is 80 or has morbidity factors....