This is why I say that if the economy isn’t restarted by June, there won’t be much of an economy to come back to.

Liberals in particular, but nearly everyone, are gravely underestimating the pernicious and incredibly negative effects this will have. It’s because they are thinking asystemtically and linearly of course, but they just cannot seem to stop.

Imagine that nuclear bombs had been dropped on several major American cities. This is what the economic shutdown is essentially doing. Vital relations and arrangements are just gone. Though those relationships and dependencies are invisible, they are just as real as a road or a building. All of those are being blown away, erased, extirpated — and they don’t and won’t just come back. That’s not how any of this works.

We have some chance if the economy is re-opened by June. If not, the Great Depression will in retrospect be considered an idyllic time.