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Might work for the title of your economics book, too, especially if you are inclined to use this episode as an opener or a kicker.

Why are so many people having a hard time reconciling this idea. This should be ingrained in our DNA.

I am a grandpa and I love my kids and grandkids. I can shelter myself while the world opens us. But I would rather be swept away by this plague than leave my grandkids a ruined nation.

Right on. There is little science to defend what is being done now. Protect the old and weak. Stay home if you’re sick. Wash your hands. Use common sense.

It's worse than teens losing water park jobs. Suicide hotlines up 500%. Residential addiction programs down 70%. JHU losing $300M from furloughed research and care. Cardiac stents, other critical care delayed. Deaths happening now from shut down, but CNN can't put up counter.

Let the vulnerable choose too.

Locking sick elderly up in nursing homes to die alone when they should have been hospitalized and treated has not been laudable. It's the most cruel thing of all

In “The Road to Ruin," financial writer James Rickards recommends "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes because he believes the coming collapse could be either deflationary or inflationary. And there is no better example of deflation than The Great Depression in the 1930s.