re: This is the biggest knee jerk reaction in the history of history

Has it occurred to you that the only reason it's not way worse is specifically because all of these countries are shutting everything down? Imagine if China and Italy never did any quarantines or shutdowns.

Coronavirus pandemic is a real crisis.

Unfortunately, the reaction to the coronavirus is a crisis in itself. It remains to be seen if the reaction crisis is worse than the virus itself.

A lot of that depends upon how you value a single human life and how many global/national deaths to a pandemic one finds acceptable.

Our response to this crisis is unprecedented. However, Facing a crisis like this - a national pandemic - is not unprecedented... there have been many pandemics before. That’s where the disconnect is for me... why all this for this particular one when we’ve never taken some of these steps in previous pandemics? Either A) we didn’t do Nearly enough in those previous pandemics or B) unnecessary overkill in this current pandemic

Personally, I believe this to be the biggest overreaction in American history. I hope that we are saving thousands of lives, because if not IMO we have done more harm than good. If all this was to save merely 500 elderly lives, I do not believe that’s a good socially-responsible reaction.