I don't think it's too outlandish to have taken a look at the measures taken as they were being proposed and then taken and say to oneself, "this is going to ha

I don't think it's too outlandish to have taken a look at the measures taken as they were being proposed and then taken and say to oneself, "this is going to have nth-order effects, many of which are easily predictable, and we should weigh these accordingly." instead, anyone who approached things from this perspective was shouted down, told they were participating in killing people, etc. etc. these nth-order effects range from personal (alcohol-related deaths, children socializing/learning to read faces poorly, effects on education, effects on mental health) to economic (independent stores closing while big box stores flourish). all of these things and many more were dismissed at the time in favor of taking radical actions which have yet to be proven to be effective. (but they had to be effective, because if we didn't take those actions, things would be worse now, right?)