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

N.O.Bronco said
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.

What I am implying there is that places are opening too soon, given the circumstances, and are doing so in not careful enough ways, and the messaging behind it is being conveyed by leadership in a manner that does not stress or put enough emphasis on the fact that this is still a major threat and should be treated as such. Georgia opened up businesses this week, Florida opened up beaches this week - that is far too early, not enough emphasis was placed on the risks associated with it, not enough thought was put into policies or structure into what that should look like for businesses and citizens, and that has resulted in scenes like this: