Originally Posted by
Mark Le Comte
Lets flip this on its head with a hypothetical. Say a foreign power was going to invade. You have two options:
1 surrender early - accept 70k casualties, mass economic shut down, mass lockdown and curfews for a couple of months, then return to a new world
2 fight - risk a (much?) higher level of casualties, have some unknown economic impact (unknown to be better or worse), but be sure that your political system and liberties have not changed.
Which would you do?