COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Don't disagree with you at all here as far as the timeline and rush. I actually agree.

The only reason I used the 30-day barometer is because I started preaching it as a 30 to 60 day barometer at an earlier stage, and that feels like over a month ago, when in reality, it has only been about a week or two.

I should instead say that that's not 30 to 60 days to open, but rather 30 to 60 days to come up with the plan, gather resources, and once all that is done, carefully open up society.



This has been the most frustrating part about all of this for me, that countries are looking at each other and continuously thinking "well, that won't be us." What that has led to is this silly game each nation keeps playing where the measures they take are all reactionary and two weeks too late. The things we did on March 15th should have been done on March 1st. The things we did on March 30th should have been done on March 15th...we continued and continued to react despite the blueprint for success being right there in front of each and every one of us.

And now, the opposite is occurring. The things we should be doing on May 31st are being done today in some parts of the country. The things we should be doing on June 1st are being proposed to get done on May 15th. The things we should be doing on July 1st are being proposed to get done on May 31st.

It is all pure madness. People have no patience.
Can you expand on this part I underlined? Because I assumed it implied one thing but I am not actually sure so better to just ask.

I wholeheartedly agree that now is the time for that planning and laying the groundwork, and to be fair, a lot of that has been going on, albeit not very well at the most important level, even if the guidelines the fed offered are in fact pretty damn good. Since they are getting undercut by lack of enforcement, follow through, or contradictory actions.

But to me, if you are weighing economic concerns heavily, which you seem to be doing, nothing is going to be stronger for long-term economic health that maximally flattening the curve and not proceeding until a sufficient testing and tracing system can be implemented. What really concerns me is half asking this and then being stuck in this cycle of constantly ebbing and flowing economic activity becuase the structural elelements needed fail to get implemented adequately and we slog along far longer than the countries that arent being so reckless opening things back up.