“Do you think everything should have gone on as normal right from the beginning?”
Strawman much?
I use CovidClowns as a counter to the dismissive types who call rational people FluBros. Does that term send a thrill up YOUR leg? In any case the CovidClowns’ day of reckoning is coming. When that day arrives there won’t be a crow left in the sky because they’ll all have been served on a plate.
Ok, you acknowledge something should have been done. So what was your plan at the very beginning? It's simple to throw out juvenile names (I think those calling people flubros are wrong also) but I'd like to see the plan you were promoting right from the start. Could you link to the thread where you told us all how to handle the situation early on?
Fwiw, I was right in your camp until recently after listening to too many experts and checking out their backgrounds and realizing we were on the same side, taking care of the United States. The giant catch 22 of your hoped for ‘day of reckoning’ is that it could only come because of the advice virtually every expert was telling President Trump and other leaders that they acted on.
Rational people don’t ignore reality and facts. Although I don’t use the term “FluBros” that is what many of them have been doing. Posting irrelevant stats and information about past flu seasons does not an argument make. It is completely irrelevant. People who do that should not be expected to be taken seriously. What has been happening and is now happening in other parts of the world has been very real that certainly doesn’t occur with the seasonal flu - that’s why policy steps are being taken to avoid having that happening here - if Italy had restricted travel from China perhaps they wouldn’t be having the situation they are having now (and obviously if China had been upfront about this and voluntary restricted travel until it got it under control none of this would be happening most likely). Entire large clusters of infections here in the US would never have materialized but for a few individuals simply engaging in unwise behavior. The President and other leaders took measures earlier here than other places did to combat this, watching what was happening elsewhere, in order to try to get “ahead of the curve.” The steps taken by the President and other leaders have been extraordinary to combat this. Let’s pray that it works - and that more treatments come on line to further push down the curve and allow for quicker recovery - slowing the rate of infection buys time for this. Of course if it does have a significant positive effect, there will be people claiming the policies had no impact and that the infections would never have occurred...but that would be fine with me...it would mean this is over and we beat this enemy.