I have to say you're the first person I've ever encountered that thinks we should have shut down even further than we did. When it was happening yea there were lunatics who were afraid to step out of their house and called the cops on their neighbors because they were outside and it made them "heroes". But today in 2026 after knowing what we know it's wild to hear someone say that. I don't disagree with the premise but we do have the luxury of hindsight at this point and other than people who were at risk of dying from the flu we shouldn't have shut anything down at all, give the loonys the initial "two weeks to flatten the curve" then tell them it's your choice and decision.....done.
We didn't know what it was or how it would impact us. Why would we just take a giant risk, and put our entire medical industry on potential verge of collapse just to go out and do things we can mostly do from home? The reason is, because when we stay home, Trump's owners on Wall Street lose out big time. This was just an opportunity to shift wealth from the middle class to the Wall Street satanic elites.
The correct course of action would have been to shut things down as much as possible. Obviously, some people have to be out. Instead of giving Blackrock $5 trillion, give it to the people so they can continue to pay bills until this situation is known better. Once it was more established who would be the most at risk (obese, elderly, those with compromised immune systems) we could then open things back up and move forward with knowledge of what we are dealing with.
Hell, Trump blew the following opportunities...
#1) First time ever a sitting president in an election year could literally send people money and buy their vote.
#2) Actually shut down the border, because having people coming in during such a situation is madness.
#3) Address the work from home issue, and push to work from home more, so we have more work/life balance and less wear and tear on roads.
#4) Used the situation to truly declare Antifa and BLM as domestic terrorists for breaking lockdown restrictions.
Instead, we got the greatest wealth transfer in the history of the world to the most evil people in the world.