I actually blame the major sports leagues (along with the NCAA) for a lot of this stupidity. They didn't even cancel professional sports seasons, NCAA basketball tournaments, etc. during World War II. I said at the time that a lot of the public hysteria was driven by this kind of unprecedented cowardice in business and academia -- and the government response at all levels was mostly driven by a reflexive reaction to the public panic, not by any kind of rational measures that would do anything to stop the spread of COVID.
It's hard for me to criticize Trump for anything he did at the time for two important reasons:
1. I would have done almost everything he did.
2. To reinforce Point #1 ... I was posting right here on FR at the time, advising him to do exactly that.
“They didn’t even cancel professional sports seasons, NCAA basketball tournaments, etc. during World War II.”
That’s not fully true. MLB was basically out, and much racing was shut down although certainly not all (Santa Anita closed and they used it for what? Housing Japs in concentration camps.).
It did seem to be up to the organizations about what to do, though. Not everything was fully stopped for sure.
Yet here you are attacking DeSantis for allowing Trump to talk him into lockdowns in Florida. What is your point? Trump is wrong, so don't listen to him? Even though he was the President, and the leader of the Republican Party, just give him the finger? Seems to be the takeaway of your posts.
Maybe in hindsight that does make some sense, but considering your strong support of Trump, it comes off more as a hypocritical boomerang attack you don't want to take to the logical conclusion.