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10% drop in Dow........all bets are off if it drops below 20000 tomorrow.

If schools close child neglect will rise as kids will be left to fend for themselves while parents try to work or find work. Child abuse will rise due to parents staying at home with their kids but having a sense of helplessness and frustration and then desperation set it.

When they start cancelling schools K-12......the economic workforce is going to go into a tailspin. Healthcare facilities will be greatly affected. OH closed school for 3 weeks.

It is sad to think that there are some in this country popping champagne bottles and toasting over this situation.

Did not take long for the media experts and pundits to jump on Medicare for All and universal income now that the economy is in distress.

This crisis just created another level of new government dependence.

1300+ cases.....38 deaths so let's all sit and watch Rome burn to the ground because of it.

This......^^^ But some here will be back to tell you shutting down everything is the "right" move..........

Big East MBB cancelled their tournament.........at halftime of a game. AT HALFTIME! Unbelievable.

Just read in literature social distancing will most likely lead to an increase in xenophobia....so there's that.

But people smarter than you know what is best for you. I stated this earlier....the precedent has now been set. This is the new normal. Eat dessert first.

Which indicates it's mortality rate is nowhere what was first predicted but keep fanning the gloom and doom.

"The corona is 10x more fatal than the flu"...... Since been debunked statistically. Was at 3% mortality 3 weeks ago, then down to 1% (hence your 10x worse), now down to roughly at 0.5%.

And I'm not going to disagree with you. We should be better than South Korea.

This country is being bright to its knees by fear....not the virus. Recovery from getting the virus is a couple weeks. Recovery of society from this hysteria will be years.

Fear >>>>> Corona This is going to get uglier.

BTW can the government just cancel the flood season in the RRV while they are at it? Let's not forget that issue for those who are going to have to deal with that tangibly.

So where does end?? At what point are we not able to do anything from a social interaction standpoint? If you are anxious, depressed or scared the last thing one needs is to be totally isolated unnecessarily? Those mental health issues spread within someone faster than this virus.

Once you take away any sense of joy, hope, peace, normalcy and safety from an individual they start to become desperate. Do that to an entire nation over an extended period of time........ I talked to colleagues.....an internist and a pulmonologist yesterday. Both way smarter than me. "Overblown" is the term used repeatedly. Maybe they are right.....maybe not. IMO the secondary ramifications of this crisis on our society and country will dwarf the infectious issues caused by the virus itself. Look at Tom Hanks........he isn't dead. He is going to start filming Cast Away 2 today, this time with a basketball courtesy of the NBA, since he'll be in quarantine.

Read NHL most likely cancelling rest of season Thursday.

But the precedent has been set.

This "right" call, as you call it, has set a precedent moving forward...........

No fans allowed at the games this weekend.