COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

If the hospitals are overrun, why is the economy lost in that situation more so than the shutdowns?
I mean, if the virus is rampaging unchecked and people are dying from respiratory failure left and right because they can't get proper treatment, you think people who haven't gotten sick yet are just going to continue going to work, the mall, restaurants and bars, flying on planes and going to Disney World?