Ok it’s time to conduct a cost benefit analysis of the shutdown. Virtually for every action taken by the federal government there is a required cost benefit analysis. However there has been no cost benefit analysis conducted to support the lockdown. To the extent there has been, it’s only been an analysis of how many Wuhan flu deaths have been prevented by the shutdown. And before I go further, there is exactly no data to support their nonsense.

Now to do a real cost benefit analysis you also need to consider the negative impact of destroying the economy and the number of deaths that that will result in. There are proven statistics that show that for every one percent increase in unemployment there will be x increase in suicides and drug overdoses and deaths from people who cannot get the medical treatments they need. This is never considered. It must be.

The left claims that if we save even one death from Wuhan flu it is worth it. Really, how many unnecessary deaths from your nonsense are worth one from Wuhan flu. How many unnecessary deaths are you willing to accept. Why is a death from the common flu not important. The answer is obvious. This has nothing to do with this virus. It is about trying to use it to take down Trump.

Unfortunately, Trump has let himself be compromised. He needs to get back to what he knows is right and open up the economy. Accept the fact that anyone who dies after an opening will be attributed to him and accept that. Just open it up. You will be pilloried for the economy if you don’t and a strong economy will be better for you than allegedly saving an undefined and unprovable number of deaths.

As any of you who have followed my rants know, there is absolutely no demonstrable evidence that the shutdown saved any lives.

BTW I heard Pence say today that this virus is three times more contagious than the common flu. Someone please ask him and Fauci and Birx to prove it. They are just making it up.