[2006alum]

Mick, what would you do instead? Please outline specifically what policies you would install and what ones you would remove. It's still not clear to me what you'd do differently. Many companies and universities (including Stanford) had already gone WFH and online-only weeks before state and local governments put shelter in place guidelines into effect. What should governments do if these workplaces and schools refuse to go back to normal? What happens when half of parents refuse to send their kids to school? Is it worth keeping your restaurant open if natural demand results in 1/3-1/2 the normal patronage?

I'd really like your step by step proposal for what governments should be doing differently.

And you reference the Spanish Flu as a comparison point for how we survived, but the Spanish Flu also involved social distancing, school closures, and bans on public gatherings. Exactly the things you seem to be opposed to now? For example, here's a 2010 article concluding how social distancing measures (WAY before that term became popular) significantly reduced mortality rates. 

Recall that when the Supreme Court announced it was postponing oral arguments, it stated that the move was not unprecedented; it had done so during the 1918-19 Spanish Flu as well. My assumption is just as we survived the social distancing measures then, so too will we now.

[2006alum]

Mick, what would you do instead? Please outline specifically what policies you would install and what ones you would remove. It's still not clear to me what you'd do differently. Many companies and universities (including Stanford) had already gone WFH and online-only weeks before state and local governments put shelter in place guidelines into effect. What should governments do if these workplaces and schools refuse to go back to normal? What happens when half of parents refuse to send their kids to school? Is it worth keeping your restaurant open if natural demand results in 1/3-1/2 the normal patronage?

I'd really like your step by step proposal for what governments should be doing differently.

And you reference the Spanish Flu as a comparison point for how we survived, but the Spanish Flu also involved social distancing, school closures, and bans on public gatherings. Exactly the things you seem to be opposed to now? For example, here's a 2010 article concluding how social distancing measures (WAY before that term became popular) significantly reduced mortality rates. 

Recall that when the Supreme Court announced it was postponing oral arguments, it stated that the move was not unprecedented; it had done so during the 1918-19 Spanish Flu as well. My assumption is just as we survived the social distancing measures then, so too will we now.