Originally Posted by Maruzo

"Hammer and dance" is the most probable and workable method to restarting the economy. Hammer being the stay at home mandate and dance being the limited release of the work force back into their perspective professional fields. For instance reducing the amount of people per carriage riding the subway.

Enforcing the social distance rules. Reducing the capacity for each and every venue, public gatherings. Letting the athletes play in the fields with limited number of camera crew, but no spectators, etc.

Sending everyone back to work all at once either in May or June and hoping that everything will work out is simply a fantasy at this moment.

In fact, such action will most likely create the following scenario:

For 2~3 weeks everything is seemingly great and humming along. Then the new infection number starts piling up and hospital emergency capacity gets overrun quickly.

More social panic ensues.

This is not fear mongering, this is prediction by experts and people who studies pandemics for a living.

"Tiptoeing back to normal" is our best bet at having an economy while keeping most people from getting infected.

You can read up about the interview by The Daily's Michael Barbaro for today's segment.