This is a wild, myopic, borderline tinfoil hat opinion. The government didn't decide to 'stop the economy', they decided to order shelter in place in the face

This is a wild, myopic, borderline tinfoil hat opinion. The government didn't decide to 'stop the economy', they decided to order shelter in place in the face of an exponentially growing pandemic. In March, the number of cases was doubling every two days in the US. And it's especially weird to see you throw stones at the Chinese Government over their inability to stop the spread of this pandemic when many, many governments around the world are also struggling to stop its spread. I'm not a fan of the CCP, and they definitely made mistakes, but I don't think there's a leg to stand on that they could have just 'prevented the outbreak'.