01/14/2020
America,
I’ve spent months coming up with my official first order of business. Ready? I will give the entire country two weeks off!(with quarantine) Bear with me here. Our GDP is $21.4 trillion per year. The common cold and flu costs our nation ~$50.4 billion per year. The cold and flu survival rate outside a host body combined with the average length of symptoms is ~two weeks. So, if we quarantined the entire country for two weeks we could eradicate the cold and flu. And in 16.2 years we would recoup our money and have no more colds to deal with. Of course we would really need to quarantine the entire globe for two weeks, but the money ratio probably holds true for every economy. I could factor in the cost savings of a two week government shut down also, but the reports are conflicting, so i’m just calling that factor a wash right now.
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