The German government made universal rules and Germany appears to be in great shape now. First of all, we needed coordinated supply acquisition and testing. We should have still been on mandatory masks. Unfortunately, little hands Donny abdicated his authority out of concern for being re-elected.
You're debating the desire for honest science with a guy that believes covid has a 3.9% mortality rate. That should put some things in perspective.
You think people wanted the economy opened up so they could eat out and gather in large groups? That's moronic. People wanted the economy opened up so they could go back to work. Life didn't stop because the government decided to shut things down and neither did bills. People need to make money so they can afford to live. Food, rent, utilities, none of these things suddenly became free. Not everyone was in a position to work from home. That's why people wanted everything to reopen. It had nothing to do with the reasons you listed.
False dichotomy fallacy
"... the death match between the economy and public health, the only winner has been partisan politics: epidemiology (mask wearing/social distancing) cast as liberal virtue, economic freedom as the “American way of life.” Leaders on the right with authoritarian instincts are minimizing the pandemic, both because they (falsely) think that is the way to shore up the economy and to consolidate their political base. "
"We are being asked to choose between public health and the economy. But the two are inextricably linked. You can’t have a healthy economy if millions are sick or dying. When people are afraid, they’re less likely to go out and spend money at the risk of getting sick. There’s no reopening the economy without controlling the health crisis."
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu by Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner :: SSRN
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