Epidemiologists are experts at epidemiology but pure layman at economics. Epidemiologists know jack squat about the social and health costs of lockdowns.
Epidemiologists only know if we do X then Y might happen—with the virus.
What got this fiasco started was Fauci, Birx and pretty much everyone else, getting sucked into the outputs of spurious computer models. And they scared the shit out of everyone with them. Including Trump. Trump would normally be jumping straight-legged at the prospect of shutting down a booming economy—but not when keeping it open could cost *millions* of lives.
So, Trump did what *any* President would do and went along with whatever Fauci, Birx, NIH and the CDC recommended. And the results were nothing short of disastrous. People we’re prevented from being with dying loved ones; weddings could only be a preacher and the couple; people’s health was put on hold while the elective procedures were shut down; churches were closed; healthy people were confined to their homes; kids are just now getting back to school. Sports, cancelled. The only thing truly ‘open’ was protesting and riots. It’s literally a moral outrage.
All for an epidemic that could have claimed as few as 20,000 lives—depending on how you want to count deaths.
Mark it down: at some point this business is going to get a really hard look.