[fragmede]

The lock-downs are because we don't have the tests and we don't have these studies, and still won't, for weeks or months to come. They're being run as fast as possible but there's a lot we don't know about this disease. In the meanwhile, people are getting sick and dying.

We can disagree on whether a lockdown causes the least amount of societal distress compared to some of the other options, we can argue on when we would personally chose to enact lockdown. We could even try and work out what it would take to prevent people losing their homes and dying. $2000/month UBI seems like it might help.

But seriously, doing anything at all is wrong? And the only right response is to do nothing? No ordering more PPE, no preparing for a surge, no rebalancing shifts so the contagion doesn't take out the police force/navy/healthcare workers/etc?

Saying that any possible response is wrong seems like pretending the problem will go away if we pretend it doesn't exist. Which is really hard to do while people are dying.