action. With little reliable information and nothing but highly fallible models and assumptions, the need to act aggressively to ensure against total calamity is more not less. In the US and elsewhere that action has been haphazard and poorly coordinated, which drags out the costs. We were unprepared for this. Something like this will happen again, as bad as this is it could very well be much worse next time, we need to learn the right lessons. Look to Singapore or the other Asian countries that have dealt with prior pandemics. "Media hysteria for clicks", "talking heads making a buck" etc are separate topics. Maybe I'm misinterpreting you here but "don't 'overreact' until a problem you can't define is totally out of control" or "handwashing was enough" are not the lessons.