I hear people keep beating the drum about mistakes made with states who re-opened earlier than others. They're now pointing to rises in positive tests - that was always going to happen! We could have opened in April or opened in October - whichever date that we opened, the number of infections and -- by fractional math -- deaths would begin to increase.
The question is what is the goal - to have as close to zero deaths as possible at all societal and economic cost? If that's the case, mandatory house arrest nationwide, government commandeering of food, utilities, and banks, no travel in or out of the country, and everyone is under a shelter-in-place order until the bureaucrats work out a vaccine. We'll see everyone in 2022 after 330 million people have been vaccinated.
Or was the goal to manage our risks as best we can without removing basic freedoms and put enough restrictions in place to prevent health care facilities from being overwhelmed?