Comment by logicchains

This article has a nice solution: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-depre... . Take some of the trillions of dollars that will be spent on bailout, and spend it on building a never-before-seen amount of protective equipment. Once we have enough for everybody to wear a new heavy-duty protective suit every day, people could go back to work. It might be expensive, but still way cheaper than shutting the economy down an extra month or two.