# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44034
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44034 "2020-04-16T22:38:27Z")
> [@All the plans to reopen the economy are terrible in different ways](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-plans-to-reopen-the-economy-are-terrible-in-different-ways/851591/99): > > It depends on your assumptions. We have been under lockdown for about 5 weeks now, and are seeing deaths around 2,000-2,500 per day. That rate is over 60k dead per month. Not too far off of your 100k per month. > > What would that rate be if we had open schools Very soon China will have reopened its schools, albeit just two grades and those are stagggered, so we’ll have an answer to that question for at least one country. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897)._