@asayeed @Alon @BenRossTransit @shadihamid (obviously it could turn out that the longer an inevitable is delayed, the worse a rebound will be, as you say. kind of an austrian business cycle theory of liberal recessions. but, as in austrian economics, what is inevitable is contestable, and succumbing to perhaps avoidable awfulness on the say-so of tenuously evidenced theory carries its own risks.)