So I've seen the mainstream press finally starting to be honest about my OP I posted in the Mayberry.
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...verybody-touches-everything-are-open.4098312/
SUMMATION: We closed the stores that would really not have to spread the virus, where nobody has to touch anything, and we kept the places where 80% of colds and other viruses spread, open as usual. Grocery stores should have stayed open, but with forced curbside, and new "runner" positions for in shape people to retrieve orders up to $100, with people able to go to the store on certain days based on the first letters of their last names etc... This is if we were serious about a major "prevention" of the spread, and not just a slow-down/delay. The damage to the economy is not worth a slowdown/delay.
The only possible explanation for the way we have done things is that nobody was trying to stop the spread of the virus whatsoever, but were instead just trying to put a dent in the speed to not immediately overwhelm hospitals. Nothing else makes any sense whatsoever. Millions and millions of Americans have this thing. It transmits just like a cold, with it similarly showing zero symptoms is a high % of carriers. Unfortunately, this cold progresses to pneumonia far more often, and causes an inflammatory reaction that kills some people, respectively. I've had a weird cough myself, and two of my kids have fevers with mild sickness right now. This is not an effort to down-play, but more of an effort to live in the reality that closing everything with everybody meeting up at the grocery store is comically counter-productive.
In essence, putting up extra space for hospital service quicker is all we needed to do differently, because the only thing current policy is doing is stretching the ordeal out to avoid hospital overflow, while completely destroying the economy. I'm not saying we should have an extended closure of grocery stores, but smart leaders at MULTIPLE levels could have come up with an organized, enforced curb-side type service, with "runners" hired to fill orders up to $100. It's too late now. 25-50 million Americans are going to end up with this virus, and millions already likely have it. If every person (asymptomatic included) in America was tested we would probably find an overall .1-.3% mortality rate (still high).
The experts have not been impressive since the beginning of this. Politics, an overall culture of upside down think, and straight truth being too often dangerous to careers has dumbed down EVERYBODY these days. Those of us that sat through more than 7 years of college know that people 20+ years out from sitting in those classes aren't geniuses from that experience; professionals generally have a pretty narrow focus, and higher political levels (without specialized focus) are usually reached with chimp politics rather than being brilliant, and more importantly, completely intellectually honest. Doctors learn (like everybody else) from their practical work actually doing a job, and we need to keep some perspective about the reality of sitting through a few extra years of classes 20-30-40 years ago. It doesn't create super-humans, and we just pretend it does because like the smart primates we are it creates order. The truth behind the curtain, as usual, is not what we pretend it is.
Again, The epidemiologists and other Doctors that have the mouth-piece have not been that impressive, or intellectually honest since the beginning. The way in which we partially shut down the economy, with everybody still meeting up at theeee place where the most germs are always passed? It's literally comically stupid. It ensures maximum long term damage to everybody, and may (might) have prevented a couple week overflow at a couple dozen hospitals, respectively.