If you shut down the internet, you shut down the economy.
Vast amounts of critical business communications run over the internet.
(Although they might regret it later)
Vast amounts of critical business communications run over the internet including state and federal government agencies.
I guess they have figured out a way to exempt themselves.
Checks are no longer flown around the country for processing in the Fed Reserves own Lear Jet Airline. The checks are scanned, digitized, and processed electronically, using the internet. Nobody gets paid for anything if the internet goes down.
It's not the economy you should be worried about. It's shutting down all the social media that's gonna piss people off! Priorities dontcha know.