> The more information is NOT better at all. Even prior to official orders coming through, people were acting on information they were receiving from news repo

> The more information is NOT better at all. Even prior to official orders coming through, people were acting on information they were receiving from news reports on the virus. Kids were pulled out of school, the restaurant industry was seeing less traffic, fewer people were in bars and people that could find a way to work from home and minimize going into the office were already doing so. Some larger firms were proactive on this. Not everyone will act perfectly with more information, but more information allows more people to make better choices for themselves and make their own risk/reward tradeoffs ahead of the curve. I think it was February that N95 masks started selling out in the shops around here, maybe sooner, and it was at least a week prior to the lockdowns that supermarkets started selling out of staples and had long lines leading into their parking lots.