Real talk here. I'll give them the first 2 weeks. The knowledge on Covid was scarce to disseminate at that point. While it might be a little overboard with 20/20 hindsight, ensuring the hospitals could handle the increased caseload was prudent.
Past those first 2 to 4 weeks has been a shit show.
The reason I was against even the initial two weeks was that I expected exactly what has ended up happening: Endless lockdown with no exit strategy. Yeah things are starting to reopen in phases finally, but this is 8-10 weeks later.
I foresaw EXACTLY THIS happening from day one. There was never ANY chance they were going to lock down for 'only' 2-4 weeks. If they could justify locking down when there were almost no cases, clearly we were going to stay in some form of lockdown until there were once again almost no cases. Especially with how the insane fearmongering had already been cranked up to 11 in mid to late March.
I said back then that we would have been better off it world governments had swept this under the rug and just lumped it in with flu. Yeah it would have looked like an extremely bad flu season; devastatingly bad even; perhaps enough to strongly encourage a few extra precautions that we don't normally do during flu season. But life would have gone on without destroying the economy, and no, 2.2 million Americans would not have died. Not that I'm normally in favor of governments papering over things, but in this case it probably would have worked out better than this current mostly-self-inflicted mess. Would have been hard not to.
(Though I didn't see the mask about-face coming. EVERY expert admonishing people for wearing 'useless' masks, pointing to established science with regard to the flu and past similar viruses like SARS. But then somewhere along the line they did a swift reversal for really no good reason. Nothing actually changed about our understanding of how the virus was transmitted. It was always respiratory droplets.)
And don't get me started on this fucking childhood inflammation disorder bullshit. This is just the next phase in the fearmongering campaign. We are not sending our damn kids to school wearing masks in the fall. They can fuck right off if that's their idea of what should happen. The world has gone absolutely insane. Mass hysteria.