This is a MEDICAL problem not, a financial one. Does it have a financial impact? Yes, it does. Should we make medical choices based on that financial impact? HE'LL NO!
It’s both, and a capacity problem as well. Humans have placed dogmatic faith in government and science to protect us from a world that will evolve new ways to kill us.
This is a global pandemic. The underlying virus spreads quickly, carriers don’t know that they have it and its just lethal enough to be concerning to high risk demographics but defiantly ignored by low risk demographics.
Getting in front of this thing assumed a huge war stock of medical supplies, reserve medical staff, testing capability and hospital bed overflow. This is why the military has the reserves.
It stopped being solely a medical issue the moment it broke out of China. So long as people are going to beaches and gatherings or making Target runs, its going to spread.
We either shut it all down for a few weeks or we let it burn through the population. These half measures will only delay the inevitable and increase the financial impact.