[Genuine Realist]

 IMHO what is "infuriating" to most people is that the lockdown didn't produce the results that were expected. I don't think it is a question of "Could we have solved the problem in a less destructive manner?" (although that is a relevant question) but rather "After all this, we still are in a mess with no end in sight." Every time we even flinch, the curve goes up again. Schools open and a week later are forced to shut down. We avoided massive deaths, but still have way too many. Not very encouraging. We are stuck until some medical miracle (vaccine, monoclonal antibodies, something) saves us. The Great Beast doesn't like that at all.

We impoverished millions, ruined the economy, killed entire industries, threw tens of millions of people out of work with no appreciable change in infections and deaths.  Don't know about y'all, but that was precisely the result I expected.  The Great Beast got what was deserved.

The Great Beast, the American public, possessed of zero intelligence and infinite wisdom.

I don't think it worked because it never could have worked. I had a link to an Economist article that discussed the fact that the European nations shut down to about 95%, whereas the US went to about 50%. BUT . . . and this is an important 'but' . . . Europe counted on American productivity to take up the slack of its own shut down. The criticisms of intellectuals, European qnd American, about the failure of US health efforts are thus hypocritical in the extreme from that perspective. (I no longer have the link).

My own thought is that the shut down in March was probably necessary, while the powers-that-be figured out what the hell was going on. But it extended far too long, and should probably have been relaxed about mid-April.

Those European nations are now trying to recover the lost economic ground, which is no small matter. Here is an Economist article that I do have at hand - https://www.economist.com/business/2020/...cle-link-1

[Genuine Realist]

 IMHO what is "infuriating" to most people is that the lockdown didn't produce the results that were expected. I don't think it is a question of "Could we have solved the problem in a less destructive manner?" (although that is a relevant question) but rather "After all this, we still are in a mess with no end in sight." Every time we even flinch, the curve goes up again. Schools open and a week later are forced to shut down. We avoided massive deaths, but still have way too many. Not very encouraging. We are stuck until some medical miracle (vaccine, monoclonal antibodies, something) saves us. The Great Beast doesn't like that at all.

We impoverished millions, ruined the economy, killed entire industries, threw tens of millions of people out of work with no appreciable change in infections and deaths.  Don't know about y'all, but that was precisely the result I expected.  The Great Beast got what was deserved.

The Great Beast, the American public, possessed of zero intelligence and infinite wisdom.

I don't think it worked because it never could have worked. I had a link to an Economist article that discussed the fact that the European nations shut down to about 95%, whereas the US went to about 50%. BUT . . . and this is an important 'but' . . . Europe counted on American productivity to take up the slack of its own shut down. The criticisms of intellectuals, European qnd American, about the failure of US health efforts are thus hypocritical in the extreme from that perspective. (I no longer have the link).

My own thought is that the shut down in March was probably necessary, while the powers-that-be figured out what the hell was going on. But it extended far too long, and should probably have been relaxed about mid-April.

Those European nations are now trying to recover the lost economic ground, which is no small matter. Here is an Economist article that I do have at hand - https://www.economist.com/business/2020/...cle-link-1