World War 2 killed only 0.3% of Americans. When 3% of Americans die, you will lose your job, there's a very good chance you will lose your home, and good luck having a normal life.
Losing 3% of Americans, spread equally throughout the population, would be bad for the economy. Losing 20% of retirees, though... That would be fantastic for the US economy.
And guess what? Covid-19 kills mostly retirees.
So no, they probably wouldn't be losing their job in that scenario, unless of course their job is to take care of the old in some way.
I really don't get what the point of your argument here is. It's such a bad comparison.
The US came out of WW2 with an amazing economy.
Also this isn't a war.
And your augment is openly self defeating, since it takes 5 seconds to find out that 3% of the world population died in WW2, and slightly more than a minute to find out that 12.7% of the Russian population died - only for them to become a world super power immediately after the end of the war.
Are you arguing for bringing the economy back online?
And guess what? Covid-19 kills mostly retirees.
So no, they probably wouldn't be losing their job in that scenario, unless of course their job is to take care of the old in some way.