“We need to develop a better plan for the next time, and
education the public so that they understand we can’t
simply shut the nation down every time this sort of thing
takes place.”
My only problem with your statement is that it presumes we had a plan in the first place. There was no plan as far i as can see.
Besides, the gerrymandered-elected political hack office holders and their limitless, largely incompetent bureaucracy in place and ability to print money with their lock on the mass media and universities - they will not be willing to develop an actual plan that doesn’t run over the citizens’ rights. Look at how in the middle of this they are using it to blame POTUS and ram through spending pork.
I think Sweden has a pretty good plan.
They are allowing the public to make their own choice what
they want to do. They can stay home, or they can work.
If they work they keep their distance, wash hand often, and do other things to minimize the threat.
Older people stay home.
Anyone else that can, is free to.
I’m pretty sure they encourage folks to work remotely too.
They are seeking to keep their economy going.
IMO < this is a good core, to develop a plan around.
We need to do that.
As for government types, they are geared to fix things.
Sometimes you can’t, and you just need to keep your mitts
off the problem. Let it self-heal.
H1N1 seems to have turned out pretty good.
We could learn from that too.