that's hindsight bias at best. strict policies are not cheap by any measure. the best we could have done cheaply was distancing (and self-quarantining when sic

that's hindsight bias at best. strict policies are not cheap by any measure. the best we could have done cheaply was distancing (and self-quarantining when sick), and drilling that singular message everywhere and all the time. instead, we got lost in the weeds of what-ifs, symptoms, masks, death counts, lockdowns, etc.