re: If all this is true, we over-reacted. Why are we still doing it?

I dont want to hijack this topic, but one major thing people should take away from this pandemic is that any model you see is complete bullshite. Whether it be forecasted deaths, global warming, or financial; they are all wrong. They can only take into account the data that is known or "accepted" by the modeler.

Models can guide you as to what decisions to make, but yiu should never take a model for face value.

The problem in this day and age is that politicians, the media, and people will look at a model as fact and use it to try to pass whatever agenda they have planned.

I really hope this pandemic will show people that models aren't to be taken exact.

And I stress this for global warming.