IMHO, it's better to overreact until you KNOW, rather than say "it's no problem, go on with your lives" when you DON'T know. You can always walk protections back, but you can't really contain a spread that's already out of control. Err on the side of caution.


Except that for many things we should have known. It's like the medical field had to rediscover how deep lung viruses worked and all common sense went out the window. Remember the guy the LA PD wanted to arrest for paddle boarding by himself in the ocean? Silly. Ditto all the people driving around in their cars - by themselves - and triple masked. And also for the revelation that viruses don't like direct sunlight (i.e. UV radiation) and/high temperatures.

European schools also weren't closed for very long. How many years will our kids have to play catch up both academically and socially because we listened to Randi Weingarten and her ilk for 2 years? One dirty secret of all the mass shootings going on right now is that we have a whole generation of vulnerable kids who might be social time bombs in the making...

A dear friend's son has a couple of learning disabilities and thanks to the lockdowns he's now reading 2 or 3 years lower than where he should be. It'll be very interesting tracking the career earnings of students in states that opened early (Florida, Georgia) versus those that stayed closed for the longest (Washington).