Except that our markets and economy are doing no worse than anyone else’s at this point excepting those countries that have already had their CV peak. Actually we went into this stronger than just about any other country in the developed world.
It might be impactful to the election if it was only us getting clobbered - but it’s the world. And if there’s one thing Republicans fear most it’s how Democrats use a crisis.
It seems to me the lockdown will last longer than 2 weeks. Which politician will be brave enough to reopen when US case number soars to say 30 or 40k which seems inevitable now?
The reopening will also be gradual and slow. It will be quite a while before US economy operates at full capacity again. The Chinese economy still hasn’t fully recovered.