3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits
For this not to bankrupt the nation and retard our growth for the next twenty-five years, we need to all go back to work, today.  Even if coronavirus kills a million people, the rest will probably be fine in the long term.  If we shut down the economy, three hundred million will be affected.  This &quot;flattening the curve&quot; business is clearly not worth it.<p>You cannot shut the economy.  There is only so much we can borrow.  The fed is buying debt right and left, and the government surely doesn&#x27;t want to borrow money and remove that liquidity.  So, the fed will buy t-bills instead and probably have to inflate the currency to pay for it all.  We could end up spending orders of magnitude than 2 trillion on more hand-outs, so we could end up with another period of stagflation.  Unless we want to retard our growth and prosperity for the next 25 years, we all have to go back, consequences aside.  Vulnerable people need to stay home for months until this blows over; it&#x27;s not the responsibility of the rest of us to lose our jobs for the sake of a few others.  Doctors say we have to stay home, but as doctors, they naturally want to prioritize health.  As the saying goes, if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.<p>Like many other problems, there are diminishing returns as we approach either extreme of opening the economy or shutting it down.  This extreme clearly isn&#x27;t working.  The at-risk million stay home; everyone else goes to work.