Your entire post seems to be about #6. And therefore it's entirely wrong. Given that "people with background in infectious diseases" have largely failed, as a

Your entire post seems to be about #6. And therefore it's entirely wrong. Given that "people with background in infectious diseases" have largely failed, as a group, to warn us in January-February about this pandemic (see this Twitter thread for a slew of concrete examples https://twitter.com/RokoMijicUK/status/1246509433145917443 https://twitter.com/RokoMijicUK/status/1246509433145917443), my conclusion is that unless someone has a background in hard quantitative field (regardless of what that field is), that person should not be let anywhere near quantitative models.