>>11486083>>11486093Ostensibly, the lockdowns are to ensure that the viral spread is as limited as possible. Obviously we're far beyond any kind of reasonable containment, we were probably fucked on that option almost over a month ago. Now what you're going to see are highly affected areas with large population centers vis a vis New York and California close down--it also doesn't help that those two states are massive coastal powers with a number of essential ports that will need to remain open for trade Because of these factors, that the influx of potential cases is significantly higher on the coasts and around inland port cities/states than, say, Idaho or Montana.
Hopefully, if we go into a full lockdown in the U.S.--meaning a majority or all of the states independently take their own measures to stop people from going out as much as they can, with limited assistance from the federal government--it will only last a short while, at the most four to six weeks. It really depends on the case rates per state, and what governors/federal response teams believe should be the overall response.
Keep in mind too that there are definite positives to this particular pandemic--we're in a much better spot from a financial, communication, and even political relations standpoint than we were a hundred years ago. Everybody's got a stake in the global market--and now people will be forced to reevaluate their stakes in local markets as well. In the best case scenario, the global market suffers moderately, but rebounds within the next two to five years as regional/national methods of production shift to a more local and less depersonalized approach. Absolute best case scenario, we see the biggest job boom in global history as companies reallocate resources back to their home nations; we see politicians cut down on meaningless partisan drivel and focus on effective, object long and short-term policies that boost public health, productivity, and overall lifestyle;
