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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 7941262" data-attributes="member: 72555">We can keep food, water and medicine supply lines running with social distancing.  Especially in any industrialized or industrializing nation.You going to a restaurant, or whatever, isn't going to interfere with that.The government can juice the economy with cash when we get through this.And yes, lots of restaurants and tourist businesses and travel businesses are going to have problems, and we are in for a recession.  The length of the recession is going to vary with how effectively we shut down COVID-19.  If you don't social distance and obey rules, you'll contribute to making the shut down less effective.To put it another way, the 1918 influenza pandemic hit during a world war.  It caused lots of damage.  There was social distancing, shutting down gatherings, etc. But food kept flowing and the war kept fighting; the parts of the economy that needed to run kept running.</blockquote>