Because our economy is too consumer-driven. But now consumers not only are worrying about their jobs, finance and their kids' lost education time, they're also worried but about their health risk. If our economy were investment driven, say we're in the middle of 1 trillion infrastructure construction when the virus hit us, then once the virus is over and we resume our economic activities, i.e. repair bridges, roads and airports, build 5G towers, connect last mile of optical fiber to residential neighborhood... you can see the outputs of these economic activities easily reach back to pre-covid level. My point is investment-driven economy recovers faster than consumer-driven economy.
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