I'm just trying to get on base here before the next home run (9 weeks post major rotator cuff surgery and still went to work everyday after about 5 weeks post op, dont have the home run power again yet)and i posted a few over reaction comments from the beginning and thought this awhile back but did not mention this below until now.
All the people that believed the media hype and bought into this essential vs non essential shut down to save lives cannot be wrong no matter what happens.
If the total number of deaths in america is some crazy high number, say over 100,000 then they will say see..if we didnt shut down that number would have been much higher.
If the total number of deaths is more in line with the common flu then they will say, see social distancing worked.
I think those of us on the "it was an over reaction" side believed that we could have kept the economy going and practiced the same social distancing ,glove wearing, disinfecting,etc in most parts of the country and ended up with close to the same results we currently have without having to destroy the economy. Afterall, from what I saw everyday driving out in las vegas was about a 50% reduction in traffic (and still numerous accidents, idiots).alot of people at parks, alot of people at walmart, Sam's club, the most people I've ever seen at home depot. All this activity along with essential workers going to work. It seems to me that adding protected non essential workers into all this activity would not have changed the outcome. But there is no way to win this argument because it did not go down that way.
