Choices have to be made. You can't save all lives and then have no economy to return to. It's a horrible choice, but it's the job of government to balance that. And yes, before you or anyone else says "what about your grandmother, your mother, father, etc", I get that. I also don't want to lose my job, my home, access to food, either.

The medical field is pushing their agenda. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's the Hippocratic oath...save all lives. If they save 100% of the population, they've done their job. They're not economists though. What people forget is that it's the job of our governmental leaders to balance on one hand the health and safety of the populace while on the other hand ensuring that there is a country left for them when they are healthy.

Choices are already being made. We're not all confined to our homes with the military distributing rations, even though that would probably be the most effective way of stopping the disease.

But it's a pandemic, not a war. No infrastructure will be lost in the next few months. The economy should be reasonably fine, once we can safely go out again.

It’s a false choice. Without a shutdown, do you think everyone will just start going back to restaurants? Will all businesses bring everyone back, filling up the elevators?

The purpose of shutdown is to drive absolute case numbers low enough for a new regime of contact tracing and testing to take over as the primary, far more granular means of fighting its spread.

You're taking it to the extreme and ignoring the whole point I made. As has been said by the president, you can't have the cure worse than the disease. I want to see people argue that point. I get the whole flattening of the curve.