That specific duration, two weeks, was an official policy from the CDC and the White House https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-spread/ ht

That specific duration, two weeks, was an official policy from the CDC and the White House https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-spread/ https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-s.... Here's the US Surgeon General talking about it: https://youtu.be/HK2ypT2xweA?t=129 https://youtu.be/HK2ypT2xweA?t=129 As we can see in the video, the experts knew from the get-go that 15 days wouldn't be enough. But they named the policy/slogan that way anyway in the hope that it would improve cooperation "oh it's just 15 days, we can all do it!". I think it's fair to say that the population shouldn't take such slogan as being absolute during an evolving unprecedented situation. But it's also fair to say that the experts (or at least the politicians) were being deliberately misleading and, rightly or wrongly, some people felt duped/lied to once they realized that. Calling them dumb for feeling duped by an official slogan isn't helping anyone. Let's agree that things could/should have been communicated better and let's all learn from it so that history doesn't repeat itself.