People went insane about it because there were poorly targeted interventions that didn’t work, were a nuisance, and that we now know were ineffective. People are totally incapable of going “well, seems dumb now but at the time we didn’t know anything”
I do buy the argument that we somehow charted a strategy that maximized pain to benefit. A lot of refusal to enact tyranny, for lack of a better term lmfao.
Enact centralized quarantine Support your local dying hotel industry Surely you will not regret enacting centralized quarantine
I don’t think that could’ve been politically feasible in the US under, like, any circumstances though.