“The politicians (and the rabbinicial organizations, and the medical profession) goofed and need to take immediate measures to restore their credibility. ”
You really can’t say they were wrong. It is all well and good to be a Monday morning quarterback (actually, it really isn’t) but to say people made a mistake by shutting people in to keep them from spreading a disease that seemed to be jumping at passersby and killing huge numbers – that’s not a mistake.
If a person smells a gas leak or smoke and they scream for everyone to clear the house and call 911, and afterwards they find out it was actually the fireplace or a neighbors bbq, do you think they acted wrongly?
Now that we have “so much” information on this illness (which you would have to be a fool to believe) we can sit and criticize all the people who didn’t take it seriously at first (which, if you would be HONEST, is probably everyone. That’s the reality of unprecedented occurrences) and then comment on how they did TOO much (as if stopping the spread is a bad idea amidst a pandemic BEFORE the facts are in) and have the chutzpah to say they need to “restore their credibility”? That’s nuts.
Moving forward, we may have enough breathing space to decide if the harm of staying indoors overrides the harm of opening the doors knowing there are millions of morons out there who will disregard all safety measures. And we STILL don’t understand how this awful children’s illness fits into the picture, so know is definitely time to work with facts and statistics and make educated GUESSES. But to criticize how it was handled while the world was on fire is just haughty and misleading.