How will people put food on the table if they're dead, invalided with crippling lung damage, or bankrupted by healthcare costs after a spell in ICU?
It's hard to imagine a better demonstration of how our economic systems are utterly unable to deal with real-world challenges, because they have no mechanisms for pricing non-trivial real-world consequences of externalities of all kinds, and provide no incentives for intelligent collective behaviour.
Remember the coronavirus mostly affects elderly people. At about a ~3% rate it’s not insanely deadly. Sure lots of people get flu and they eventually recover.
The reason of social isolation is to ensure the 3% that do get serious don’t overwhelm the healthcare system. The virus will spread, we just want to slow the spread.
It's hard to imagine a better demonstration of how our economic systems are utterly unable to deal with real-world challenges, because they have no mechanisms for pricing non-trivial real-world consequences of externalities of all kinds, and provide no incentives for intelligent collective behaviour.