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I think you're conflating what the general public believes with what those in control believe. It is in the public's best interest for the general public to on

I think you're conflating what the general public believes with what those in control believe. It is in the public's best interest for the general public to only worry about what is within their control (so as to avoid panic). Therefore, the general public is being led to believe that all is going to be OK after a couple months of social distancing. I guarantee you behind the scenes, those in control are scrambling to take immediate and drastic action to ramp up our medical treatment capacity.

saurik 7y ago
...but I am an elected government official (for a hyper local government, though in a good position where I get to peak behind the curtain of the regional government above me) and the vast majority of my friends work in government; and when I present the argument about capacity expansion moving the line on that cute graph upward as a critical thing we should be doing in addition to moving the peak down and to the right using capacity expansion, the reaction was literally "huh, I hadn't thought about it that way before" :(.