[AntonStratiev]

No but I am in the tens of millions of Americans who will lose their job and go bankrupt if things continue this way. I could sell my possessions and move back with my elderly parents (ironically exposing them even more to the virus). Suicide is another option if the situation does not improve.

At least during a regular economic downturn, you can go to a bar, drink out your sorrows, join a construction crew. Now, during Coronavirus panic, which of these options even remain? It is completely unprecedented to have everything shut.

Those who will perish already have existing health conditions, and would have died at some point anyway:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...

[gnulinux]

This logic doesn't make sense, you will also die eventually anyway, that doesn't mean killing you now is ok. In an earlier comment you said what you propose will be like taking all the deaths in the next few years and fitting them into next 3 months. What makes you think those people living a few years fewer is less important than young people enjoying a good economy?

[ab_testing]

I am not surprised that you are being downvoted. Most of HN does not understand that a majority of the US lives paycheck to paycheck. In their world, all work can be done remotely and this pandemic will increase the transition to remote work. I live in a city where the local economy is tourism based. I am estimating that as of this Friday, the unemployment rate in my city is closer to 70% if not more. The minimal amount of unemployment insurance is not even enough to put food on the table, let alone pay rent.

[durge]

You have a 100% chance of dying someday.

[dannyr]

So if this virus kills people in the same demographic as you instead and you are one of the people dying, you're ok if the government just let you die?

[Sholmesy]

We all will have died at some point anyway.

[aguyfromnb]

The country has been in lockdown for, what, one week? And already you're talking about letting people die so you can keep your job, or committing suicide?

Show a little fortitude, we will get through this.