What was wrong about the shut downs is the arbitrary nature of them and inconsistent application from state to state. The same is occurring again with the lesse

What was wrong about the shut downs is the arbitrary nature of them and inconsistent application from state to state. The same is occurring again with the lessening of restrictions. We saw attempts by some governors and mayors to play political games with the shut downs by favoring certain business types over others when both had similar staffing concerns all to score points with one group or another and little to no concern with public health. We even had one governor ship sick people to elderly care homes! A lot of this can be laid at the feet of the CDC, which Trump not withstanding and I really question his affect over the CDC, which fumbled the whole event and still does not manage it well. However people need to realize, outside of war, the Federal Government of the US in not up to the task. They have fumbled natural distastes with the most recent famous one being Katrina but even subsequent disasters did not show much improvement. To that end, what Congress should have been doing instead of trying to craft stimulus programs to benefit political buddies is run the CDC and FEMA through the ringer and start the process of building a coordinated process to follow for the duration of COVID19 as well as future issues. Instead they are all playing up for the November elections