The choice that has been made is only from a health perspective, not an economic one.
The economy is the ONLY thing standing between us and the guns of a hungry and desperate people. You say we're making the best of bad choices, I don't think you comprehend
just how bad the choice we've made is. This is the United States, our safety net has HUGE gaping holes in it. In a time of economic crisis we will fail people, by the millions. Like never before, as we've never been in such an interdependent and financially starved position before, as a people, as a society. Trickle down means we're living on the edge. Congratulations, we've just been pushed off.
The consequences are building every week for more and more Americans. Only solace I can find is... I don't know how responsible our government is in creating this economic collapse. Sure, they ordered and mandated it. But people were already starting to panic and cancel travel and sports, and lots of public gatherings anyway. The virus alone is bad for the economy and I don't know how much of it is that VS how much we've done to ourselves. Or as Republicans would say... how much the government has harmed us in this.
And the whole "no evictions" thing. A delay. Not like people are going to afford catching up in back pay two or three months from now. We have strung out the consequences, but they will reverberate through our society for years to come. I don't see how, in this country, we make people whole again. How we save them from falling through the cracks. This is America, we live in a system designed for us to fail. That is how I see this ending. A greater depression... or worse.