[oldgradstudent]

> I'm not trivializing this kind of effort: it takes rigorous sampling designs and dozens or hundreds of field workers, among other things. It's intense but very straightforward. Political pollsters (and thousands of researchers in different fields) do it every day.

I am trivializing it, when compared to the cost of stopping down there economy as we've done.

If there a chance the results can restart the economy a bit earlier, it almost doesn't matter how much it will cost.