I called this a fraud on 16 March 2020. I still stand by that. The country is at a turning point and the economy, for what it is worth, may be permanently injured in a way for which there is no going back. This is not prohibition of alcohol, another spectacular government success, but a slick means to prohibit private entrepreneurship. Never in the history of the country has the government stepped in outside of wartime and closed and shuttered private means of earning a living. Now, has the state regulated the fuck out of all above-ground means of production? Of course, but when has the state ever stepped in and insisted all of its serfs stop tax-producing activity? Grok that and you will see the unintended consequences of the national house arrest, it will permanently change the country forever and the advantage will slip to the government once again as they insist on borrowing on the unconsenting legions of children yet born to fill septic tanks and pay zombies to watch TV.

Government will always be terrible, incompetent and fulfill the worst nightmares any tyrant can envision.

Once the scientifically illiterate goons in government start providing perverse incentives, subsume all comorbidity to assignment of Peking Pox as the primary slayer and then adjust models whose input is not only wrong but maliciously incorrect, the ends make for a wicked cocktail of incompetence and totalitarianism[.

Are you entertained yet?