and some of it, like the day care rules and mass transit rules, is laughable.
For instance, have you ever tried to wrangle toddlers and preschoolers? You might get away with this with school age children, but it would be a constant battle.
Best thing for mass transit is to require masks, N-95 preferable (if we can pry them loose from TSA and DHS). The operative word in mass transit is "mass," meaning it has to move a lot of people quickly. Bosses are not going to respond well to employees who come in an hour and a half late, waiting for a subway train with a taped spot available, it's just not going to happen.
In addition, preachers want the butts in the pews so they can pass the plate. School restrictions look aimed more at destroying social interaction than keeping kids safer. We can't pack them into hazmat suits and 6 feet of distance in a closed classroom won't do squat. I speak as someone who went through school epidemics when half the kids were out and the rest of us were sitting far apart and kids and teachers both got sick until they closed the schools for a week or two.
What we should have done in the past 2 months is gear up production of PPE (instead of hijacking delivery trucks so Jared could micromanage distribution), opening field hospitals and quarantine facilities, and pushing out testing, testing, testing--both diagnostic and antibody. House arrest and social distancing were stopgap measures to buy time to do this. It was wasted time and now we're all going to pay for it.
And the CDC is dreaming. The best they can do is keep theaters, sports arenas, and other venues that draw crowds closed. Other than that, we are on our own.
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