Yeah, could be, but with other things involving large numbers of people (say a million) you can do X and get 100,000 complainers that say “ditch X, do Y”, and if you comply and throw X under the bus and embrace Y you get 100,000 people saying “no! X was far better, and Y is trash, burn Y to the ground and go back to X!”. It is my assertion that those two groups of 100,000 people are largely distinct people. Not 100,000 people that complain about anything you do.
This definitely applies to things like where the caps lock and escape keys are, and the colors of any and all bike sheds. I expect it applies here too. For example I thought CA was reopening too soon (I figured we hadn’t really changed anything from when we closed down, except we had more cases). I thought at most we should do a very slow limited reopening and wait two weeks to see how it went. Of corse I also have a job I can do from home, so I was arguing from a position of economic stability.
Yep, not just for people, also for businesses. I know a lot of smaller businesses that were profitable before, and I expect could have been profitable later, but definitely couldn’t make rent payments during a lockdown (either government mandated, or in absence of an appropriate government mandate then when people have enough fear to stay home on their own). Those are gone now, the owners wiped out, and will likely be unable to find enough money for equipment they couldn’t move home when evicted form commercial properties. They won’t be able to rehire employees because they won’t be reopening. Also I won’t be able to get those particular peanut butter cookies anymore, which you may not think is as tragic as all those lost jobs, but I assert it is because you haven’t eaten those particular cookies before.
