So you're saying our governments response is equally paranoid since they are ramping up more and more policies to slow the spread and get past it.
Now you might be right; the government might be using this as a test bed/run for a possible larger contamination later. It would indeed be a good, but very expensive, opportunity for them to do that. Of course $100+B is nothing to our government these days it seems.
If they are indeed doing that then maybe it's something we as a country need to do. The next biological may not be as low risk as this one is to anyone.
Yup, all these governors declaring emergencies and shuttering schools (think teacher’s unions) exacerbated the panic. IIRC, there have been almost NO cases in any US schools. But look at the economic and social dislocations from those moves.
“So you’re saying our governments response is equally paranoid since they are ramping up more and more policies to slow the spread and get past it.”
I was pretty skeptical about the federal response initially, but I think I may see what the strategy is.
There was a good article by Steve Sailer in Taki Mag that provides the background:
https://www.takimag.com/article/crushing-the-coronavirus-curve/
Essentially what it said is that the normal infection rate can be so steep that it’s easy to overwhelm health care responses, especially intensive care facilities - that’s what happened in China. So more people die than need to. But if you can slow the spread of the infection you can also spread out the occurrence of really bad cases, so that the hospitals can keep up. In the long run you get about as many people infected, both mildly and seriously, but you don’t get battered all at once. And then the health care system can do its job in handling the tough cases.