They had no choice...too many people demanded the government take action to prevent the spread.
You can't demand such and then bitch about that many people out of work in which many will just work from home, others financially compensated for the lost work...people will just adapt.
My point, much easier to adapt to lost wages than to illness or worst as in a death of a love one.
Simply, no winners...nor right or wrong...just a situation where you're demanded to minimize the health cost of those that voted the government into office. Seriously, when the doctors and nurses don't have enough equipment to deal with the illness...
You gotta shut it down for awhile until the supply catches up with the demand.
Anyways, politicians are saying they rather hear they over-reacted than under-reacted because the latter is much worst in the long term and you can not wait for natural immunity to develop (could take 100 years) nor wait for a vaccine.
The thing that sucks about Pandemics...its ever changing. Social and cultural reactions determines if there's a over-reaction or no reaction as in just let nature take its course even if you become a victim too.
Survival of the fittest...right ?
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