Comment by jbob2000

Here's what it comes down to then; Which option is cheaper:

1. Spend money to temporarily increase hospital beds and ventilator capacity, but keep everything else running normally, or;

2. Shutdown everything to slow the spread so that we don't need to increase bed and ventilator capacity.

I'm tempted to say that adding bed and ventilator capacity is cheaper. I don't think that option costs trillions of dollars, like option 2 does.