We can't lose our entire country to COVID-19

Because of COVID19, America is in jeopardy of crashing our economy into a Great Depression. Not recession, people. Depression. Very few people alive today know what a depression is (only those in their 80s and 90s). Most have no idea.

Find one of these people. Ask them what it was like to wait in bread lines. Or have no gas for their cars, no fuel for their heat. No medicine.

Consider: 37,461 people died from auto accidents in 2016; 70,000 people died from drugs and alcohol in 2017; 50,000 people die per year from occupational injuries; 606,880 people died from cancer in 2019. No shut down for these poor people - a whopping 764,341 deaths per year

Yes, COVID-19 deaths will go up, and COVID19 is very contagious with no vaccine yet developed. But many people who get it are not affected at all. We cannot destroy ourselves for years and years to come, a nation of over 300 million people.

There is only one way out of this, and yes it will require that we walk and chew gum at the same time. We must fight the virus and open the economy at the same time. That is our only hope. We can do it. Collectively, we can do it. Some will die. Some will get sick. But America will survive.

We cannot shut America down for two or three months and expect to have something to come back to.

It simply won't be there.

Nick Herman

Bartlett