[kube-system]

Why not? The US GDP dropped by over 2 trillion in just the second quarter. That's over $300,000 per infection right there. And that's if we don't count future quarters, Q1 2020, or any of the trillions in stimulus that has been pumped into the economy. It doesn't seem these numbers are out of line with the back-of-the-envelope math.

[votepaunchy]

You’re off by a factor of 4. US GDP is a little over $20T/year, and dropped a little under 10% 2020q2, so a drop of about $500B.

[kube-system]

Ah, I was looking at an annualized dollar amount. Still, it would be a reasonable back-of-the-envelope number considering that the economic impact is still present and is going to continue into the future at least a year.