If you shut down Jimmy's Bar and Grill for 1 month, it can be reopened 1 month later. The only thing you would need for that is some money (a loan, possibly) and food.
If you shut down a factory, this affects every single company that sells them parts down the production chain and everyone who buys factory's product up the production chain. You also affect every single business that services those factories, including equipment manufacturers, maintenance and delivery. You also affect other customers of all those companies if loss of part of their business forces them to shut down.
Meanwhile, you're not producing parts and you're not maintaining equipment. So when the virus is over, there is no clear path to restart the whole thing.
"If you shut down Jimmy's Bar and Grill for 1 month, it can be reopened 1 month later."
Actually, it can't. To reopen, it will have to replace spoiled supplies and hire new employees. And that is assuming Jimmy hasn't gone bankrupt in the meantime, which is hardly out of the question.
If you shut down every bar and grill in the city, you affect every distributor and supplier, including equipment manufacturers, maintenance, and delivery, and all of their other customers if they are forced out of business.
Yes, the only thing you would need for any of this is some money, but that's true for everything.
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If you shut down Jimmy's Bar and Grill for 1 month, it can be reopened 1 month later. The only thing you would need for that is some money (a loan, possibly) and food.
If you shut down a factory, this affects every single company that sells them parts down the production chain and everyone who buys factory's product up the production chain. You also affect every single business that services those factories, including equipment manufacturers, maintenance and delivery. You also affect other customers of all those companies if loss of part of their business forces them to shut down.
Meanwhile, you're not producing parts and you're not maintaining equipment. So when the virus is over, there is no clear path to restart the whole thing.
"If you shut down Jimmy's Bar and Grill for 1 month, it can be reopened 1 month later."
Actually, it can't. To reopen, it will have to replace spoiled supplies and hire new employees. And that is assuming Jimmy hasn't gone bankrupt in the meantime, which is hardly out of the question.
If you shut down every bar and grill in the city, you affect every distributor and supplier, including equipment manufacturers, maintenance, and delivery, and all of their other customers if they are forced out of business.
Yes, the only thing you would need for any of this is some money, but that's true for everything.
Yet Volkswagen is doing it: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/business/volkswagen-plants-eu....
I don't think "it would be complex" is a reasonable excuse.
That is the same for almost every business!