All sectors should be opened in an appropriate proportion to each other so that none is deprived of inputs to resume output The current economic situation resembles an involuntary general strike, as workers cannot reach the capital assets or land that they need for production.
This makes it different from a sudden stop in production because of a war or natural calamity: neither the labour force nor capital assets have been destroyed.
The general strike is involuntary because the distancing has been imposed by governments to deal with an unprecedented public health crisis, rather than out of choice.
What we are experiencing now is thus primarily a supply shock. There will be a subsequent demand shock as the lack of income damages the
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