I don't think we'll furlough. This whole thing is gonna be over on November 4 or soon thereafter. It'll be either via a vaccine, or some new study that will show that our numbers were grossly overinflated and we counted people dying *with* and *with presumptive* COVID in the same group as dying *of* COVID, and the former will be far, far higher than the latter thereby lowering our death numbers much lower than they are.
In any case, the virus is gonna have to run its course, and I'm willing to bet that our collective reaction will be studied as one of the largest human blunders and "WTF were we thinking" periods in modern history.
As for Southwest, should the worst happen, I do see them offering another round of VSP's and ExTO's before resorting to furloughs.