The response by governments to the coronavirus, bringing the economy to a standstill and costing millions of jobs, are a preview of how proposed climate policies like the Green New Deal would devastate the economy. The current lockdown and the Green New Deal are based on the same things, faulty models that over project the harm, in one case, from the virus, in the latter case from climate change. Interestingly, government suggestions to prevent the virus's spread, social distancing, driving alone, use plastic bags, etc, are the opposite of the policies they have pushed for years to fight climate change including smart growth planned forced densification in in cities, taking mass transit, using reusable bags.