You're missing the point. Again, it's not about dying but catching the disease and/or passing it on. It kills old people and the immunodeficient. What if you catch it, pass it on and it ends up killing a family member? Are you completely okay with it? Even if not, would you want to suffer through it in some overcrowded hospital ward for weeks? Result is that people will avoid crowded areas. Would you be able to relax on a ship cruise with the current situation? Probably not. So why would you take the cruise in the first place?
No, I don't want anyone to die, but the fact is, we all do die. We die of disease, we die in car crashes, we die from eating too much fast food, and we die many other things But do we stop driving cars? Stop eating junk food? I don't want to get anyone sick, but this genie is already out of the bottle. What is the ramifications of the entire country not working for a month? Food shortages? Homelessness? This cure may be much worse than the disease in this case.
Well, this is on top of everything else. And you keep talking about yourself, as if that is the only concern. You can pass it onto older relatives for example. The reality is that if everyone is sick, the countries will stop anyway. So taking precautions makes a lot of sense from any aspect.
No countries wont stop. In 2017 20 million Americans went to the hospital for flu. Over 800,000 were hospitalized and more than 60,000 died. Did we hear daily news stories about that? Did the economy stop or did it keep on roaring to record levels? Don't buy into the fear.
This is definitely different, according to epidemiologists. Both the panic and reality of high mortality has butterfly effect that disrupts life. People will be in defense mode, living in fear, spending less til year's end. But on the flip side, it's perfect timing to stay housebound and trade the markets.
Money is never in the market to begin with. Just shares and/or contracts. Buy a stock from someone else. They have the money, not the market. Sure if they in turn buy another stock with that money it goes back in .... to someone else's pocket. Rinse repeat.
Except CV 19 is ten times more deadly. Alarm is needed to stop the spread and seems the best way to do that (like China did) is to not allow gatherings, big and small. Such as on airplanes, sports arenas and especially cruise ships lol.