Looking at CNN often they show cities around the world mostly abandoned these days. Most people not working for food markets or gas stations or hospitals or pharmacies or truck drivers hauling food are not working. My son, for example, is the only member of my family still able to work because his company didn't shut down because it was needed. Most people over 65 that I know are okay because they had already planned how to be okay. So, it's mostly people from zero to 50 that might be in trouble.
Usually by the time you make it to 50 you have figured out how to keep going or you are gone somewhere between 40 and 65. Once people get on Social security or permanent disability and Medicare they usually have found a way forward. So, I believe presently it is the people zero to 50 that are struggling the most to pay for food and rent and all that and car payments at this point.
Hopefully everyone will come through this relatively unscathed. However, I worry that the shutdown and sheltering in place is going to cause more problems than solutions.
Though it is true that you need hospitals not to be overrun with patients you also need businesses to run for the country to stay financially stable.
There are very few financially stable companies still operating in the U.S. right now.
We don't want Amazon to be the ONLY big company remaining alive after all this is over, for example.
Because even Apple can no longer get IPhones from China even though that could change any day as more areas of China open up now.
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