If you've been following the news, and reading threads here, it is easy to see how the "shutdown" is affecting even "small" industries like the boating industry.
Health Care Providers' sole purpose is to care for human patients. They are a vital voice in this fight against this new virus.
Economists have the ability to help us care for the economic engine that serves the same patients.
Food for thought: Businesses run on revenue - not capital. Most businesses and even small colleges and universities cannot maintain an indefinite "pause".
Hitting "re-start" on the economy is not a simple proposition. It takes capital to restart a business that has been on "pause".
This is a complex problem, but it is worth thinking through how we might hear all voices and work toward solutions that address both the instigating problem (the virus) as well as the sympathetic problems (economy) that are arising as we walk this path.