You are missing some key facts
Remember these numbers are under mitigation, which means if we did nothing, our numbers will be even higher and we would have had a peak which would have collapsed our health care system and our economy.
President Trump took the right decisive actions at the right times to keep this under control as best as we can. This is a bad situation, I think letting it rip would have been an even bigger disaster, both for our health care system/workers and for our economy. You have to be realistic here and realize that doing nothing would have been far worse for our country both in lives/deaths and economic. Also need to realize that we didn’t know everything we know about this in Feb/March as we know today. A lot info out of China was just wrong. The WHO was compromised and Thank God Trump didn’t listen to any of them especially when he put in the travel ban from China.
Every major country with some sort of economy and travel got hit with this thing, it wasn’t just us and I believe we had the best response to it. We need to thank our President for making the tough decisions when he did.
“Remember these numbers are under mitigation, which means if we did nothing, our numbers will be even higher and we would have had a peak which would have collapsed our health care system and our economy.”
They would not have collapsed our health care systems except may be in a the Democratic hell holes like NYC, Detroit. As it is we collapsed our economy anyway and the toll of doing so may well exceed the virus.
You make a false dichotomy. The choice is not about “do nothing” or “tyrannical shutdowns”. Well known pandemic/epidemic measures could be taken such as isolation and quarantine of the vulnerable and sick.
More of the “we did not know” bs. That is true of almost every scary boogeyman invented by the left. The “unknown” is infinitesimal.
The virus is still there it hasn’t left. It waits for everyone until we achieve mass immunity. The lives saved by slowing the spread is far outweighed by the repression of our liberties.
Our response was among the worst. A free people can be trusted to make their own decisions. Most of the lockdown decisions were arbitrary and capricious and have actually cost lives. The death toll has been amplified by idiotic descison making that was based on “what we do not know”.