[thelean12]

People are getting a more complete view of the potential outcomes and options.

If the most likely outcome is that 50-70% of the population gets infected anyway, then the goal shouldn't be to save lives. It should just be to keep a buffer of beds available in hospitals and to close only enough to keep that buffer. This is what NY is doing with their 30% hospital capacity buffer metric. The bay area has had plenty of hospital capacity and people can see that as a failure with the 50-70% assumption.

Of course, that all could be wrong, and we could save millions by continuing to be mostly closed. I'm not sure. But the change in tone could be people moving towards the first option.