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I'm not arguing that we're able to perfectly walk the line with medical resources and social interaction, only saying that the direction of trends in itself isn't sufficient criteria to make decisions. The fact that there's several weeks delay between implementing a change and observing the results poses serious challenges to perfecting a strategy.
2/3rds of Americans have at least one risk factor, which is being overweight. The thing that astonishes me though is that it's a risk factor for nearly any disease, yet people don't view being overweight as being as alarming as say, a pandemic that kills very few people as a percentage of the population. My point isn't to diminish the seriousness of the pandemic, but to put it into context with our other misplaced anxieties.
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