Why didn't the state legislatures stand up to the power-hungry governors? Why didn't they implement the Emergency Management plans instead of totalitarian edicts?
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I think part of that is just due to all the misinformation initially. Keep in mind that about a month ago the numbers we were being fed was that over 2-5 million+ Americans could die to this outbreak unless we worked seriously hard to flatten the curve and keep people from spreading it if at all possible.
As a thought experiment let's say this was the worse disease in the history of humanity and that 50% of people who got it would die. And that if left unchecked over 180 million people in the US would die from it. In that obviously extreme case measures to lock everything down would make sense and likely no one would be arguing against the measures (neither the other branches of government nor the citizens). Obviously this isn't the case, I'm just arguing that on a spectrum of severity at some point the current solutions would have made sense.
So thanks to the early models being completely wrong and providing governments with the predictions that they did it was perceived as severe enough that people were duped into taking totalitarian measures and at the time the other branches had no reason to step in and stop it. Now that better data is coming out and we know that the numbers were WILDLY wrong I'm hoping that they will try and put an end to this asap. But that also means politicians need to admit they made a mistake and caused untold damage to the economy in the process and something tells me not many politicians want to own up to that in an election year...