If you are “owed an explanation” you need to understand models better.
You can model things where the relevant variables are known. In this case, they were not and are not known.
For example: China extensively decontaminated Wuhan City for a month while welding people into their homes.
Are Manhattan and Brooklyn going to be inhabitable in the Fall? Please model it.
OK, what’s your model based on?
Nothing, that’s what. GIGO.
This is all about trade-offs. No one wants anyone to die of the virus, but already huge chunks of people can’t pay their rent and can’t buy food. Did you see the one-mile long swath of cars in line for food at a food bank in Pittsburgh a few days ago? Some are estimating that the $2 Trillion bail-out passed by Congress will keep the country going for a few weeks. If the country doesn’t get back to work soon the virus is going to be the least of the problems most people in the country will face....